Skewness, kurtosis & box plot interpretations - Right, left, & symmetric distributions - statistics

[@nikofanclub4012]

please do a series for inferential Statistics too

[@edusurgclinics]

Definitely. Will be doing a playlist on inferential statistics as well. Thank you very much for your appreciation. Do visit the website www.learnwithedusurg.in for more such free content and educational material. Do share with colleagues, juniors and students. Regards🍀

[@peterwestfall6924]

Kurtosis does not indicate peakedness or flatness. You can have infinitely peaked distributions with very low kurtosis, and you can have low, perfectly flat-topped distributions with very high kurtosis. Examples can be found on the current Wikipedia page. Kurtosis only measures tail weight.

[@edusurgclinics]

That is also correct. Excess kurtosis indicates heavy tails and vice versa. But, positive and negative kurtosis as a measure of peakedness or distribution around the mean is also an established concept in multiple books and articles.

[@peterwestfall6924]

Yes, and those references are outdated and incorrect. See www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4321753/