Syntax

Description of the illustration kurtosis_samp.eps

Purpose

The sample kurtosis function KURTOSIS_SAMP is primarily used to determine the characteristics of outliers in a given distribution.

NULL values in expr are ignored.

Returns NULL if all rows in the group have NULL expr values.

Returns 0 if there are one or two rows in expr.

For a given set of values, the result of sample kurtosis (KURTOSIS_SAMP) and population kurtosis (KURTOSIS_POP) are always deterministic. However, the values of KURTOSIS_SAMP and KURTOSIS_POP differ. As the number of values in the data set increases, the difference between the computed values of KURTOSIS_SAMP and KURTOSIS_POP decreases.