Selecting Statistics  


Statistical Test

Kurtosis

Statistical Measure

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Notes

To test departures from normality: for N greater than 1000, refer the critical ratio of the kurtosis measure to a table of the unit normal curve; for N between 200 and 1000, refer the kurtosis measure to a table for testing kurtosis; for N less than 200, use Geary's criterion. This is a biased estimator.

Kurtosis: McNemar, Q. Psychological Statistics. Fourth edition. New York: Wiley 1969. p. 25

Critical Ratio of Kurtosis: Snedecor, G. W., and Cochran, W. G. Statistical Methods. Sixth edition. Ames, lowa: The lowa State University Press, 1967. p. 86

Table for testing kurtosis: Snedecor, G. W., and Cochran, W. G. Statistical Methods. Sixth edition. Ames, lowa: The lowa State University Press, 1967. p. 552

Geary's criterion for kurtosis: D'Agostino, R. B. Simple compact portable test of normality: Geary's test revisited. Psychological Bulletin 74 (1970):138-140.

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