When values for a variable in a study that accumulate outside the normal curve are described as heavy-tailed or light-tailed, this is known as ______.

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Kurtosis refers to the measure of the "tailedness" of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable, indicating whether the data are heavy-tailed or light-tailed relative to a normal distribution.

When Values for a Variable in a Study That Accumulate