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ExpKurtosis: Measures of Shape - Kurtosis

Description

Measures of shape to give a detailed evaluation of data. Explains the amount and direction of skew. Kurotsis explains how tall and sharp the central peak is. Skewness has no units: but a number, like a z score

Usage

ExpKurtosis(x, type)

Value

ExpKurtosis returns Kurtosis values

Arguments

x

A numeric object or data.frame

type

a character which specifies the method of computation. Options are "moment" or "excess"

Author

dubrangala

Examples

Run this code
ExpKurtosis(mtcars$hp,type="excess")
ExpKurtosis(mtcars$carb,type="moment")
ExpKurtosis(mtcars,type="excess")

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