thekurt {cgwtools}

Calculates the kurtosis of the input data set.

Description

Kurtosis is the next moment after skew (which is the moment after the variance). This function is provided primarily to support the function mystat . It uses the algorithm provided in the R package e1071

Usage

thekurt(x)

Arguments

x

A vector or vectorizable data set.

Value

A single scalar, the kurtosis of the data provided.

Author(s)

Carl Witthoft, [e-mail]