 Kurtosis as Peakedness, 1905 – 2014. R.I.P. by Peter H. Westfall

By Peter H. Westfall.

Published in The American Statistician.

Online text: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4321753/

Cited passages: §2, Terminology, definition of κ; §4, counterexamples with different peaks; §5, central and tail contributions; §5, Why Tails Mostly Determine Kurtosis, inequality (1) and following fixed-h argument.