Skewness and Kurtosis with SPSS Tutorial (SPSS Tutorial Video #11)

In this video, I show you how to determine and interpret the SKEWNESS and KURTOSIS of a distribution. These are two useful metrics for describing the shape of a distribution. I also give you a chance to try and to it yourself.
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[@Yudo780]

Thanks a lot. its really help me. its really really different from what general Indonesian KZbinr I see explain

[@lilydarcy8394]

Thank you for the clear explanation! I completely forgot how to calculate skewness and kurtosis on SPSS. 😅

[@omerashahnawaz6933]

Hi Thankyou so much for explaining everything so simply. I have a question that can skewness and kurtosis be applied on likert scale?

[@DataDemystified]

Glad you found it useful. And yes, you can!

[@omerashahnawaz6933]

Thank you so much.

[@peterwestfall6924]

Kurtosis does not measure flatness or peakedness at all. You can have infinitely peaked distributions with low kurtosis (e.g. beta(.5,1)), and you can have distributions that appear perfectly flat-topped over nearly all the data with infinite kurtosis (eg .9999U(0,1) + .0001Cauchy). Kurtosis measures tail weight (or outlier propensity) only. The only reason that high kurtosis distributions appear "peaked" is because the outliers stretch the horizontal scale, as in your graph. In other words, kurtosis measures the outliers, not the peak. Reference: "Kurtosis as peakedness: 1905 - 2014. RIP", The American Statistician.

[@liekev.6133]

Great video, very clear explanation! I have 3 variables with a too high curtosis (according to literature should be between -2 en 2). How can I fix that? Have been trying to apply LogLinear Transformation, but that only seems to make things worse.. Any tips?

[@lukebreedon3028]

How do you find the skewness and kurtosis for say half of the statistics of one variable?

[@leonvdb8388]

The higher the skewness number the higher the bars in the graph?

[@DataDemystified]

The higher the skewness, the more of a tail the graph has.

[@leonvdb8388]

@@DataDemystified thank you!

[@petertucker5878]

Are there thresholds that we can use to say that data is normal using these? i.e. how to decide whether we can then go on and treat the data as normally distributed

[@DataDemystified]

Best bet is to use a test of normality (descriptive stats~> explore ~>plots (tests for normality)