Calculate kurtosis

Calculates kurtosis of the values of a numeric vector. This uses the same definition of kurtosis as as the "kurtosis()" function in the e1071 package, where type == 2, which is equivalent to the definition of kurtosis used in Excel.

Usage

kurt(x, na.rm = FALSE)

Arguments

x

A numeric vector.

na.rm

Set TRUE to remove NA values, otherwise returns NA.

Value

A kurtosis value (scalar).

Examples

x <- runif(20)
kurt(x)
#> [1] -1.488466