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# A Quantile Alternative for Kurtosis

J. J. A. Moors
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series D (The Statistician)
Vol. 37, No. 1 (1988), pp. 25-32
DOI: 10.2307/2348376
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2348376
Page Count: 8
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## Abstract

Recently, Moors (1986) showed that kurtosis is easily interpreted as a measure of dispersion around the two values $\mu \pm \sigma$. For this dispersion an alternative measure, based on quantiles, is proposed here. It is shown to have several desirable properties: (i) the measure exists even for distributions for which no moments exist, (ii) it is not influenced by the (extreme) tails of the distribution, and (iii) the calculation is simple (and is even possible by graphical means).

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