Applications Kurtosis

the sample kurtosis useful measure of whether there problem outliers in data set. larger kurtosis indicates more serious outlier problem, , may lead researcher choose alternative statistical methods.

d agostino s k-squared test goodness-of-fit normality test based on combination of sample skewness , sample kurtosis, jarque–bera test normality.

for non-normal samples, variance of sample variance depends on kurtosis; details, please see variance.

pearson s definition of kurtosis used indicator of intermittency in turbulence.

kurtosis convergence

applying band-pass filters digital images, kurtosis values tend uniform, independent of range of filter. behavior, termed kurtosis convergence, can used detect image splicing in forensic analysis.