A Measure for Peakedness

Authors
Horn, Paul S.
Citation
S. Horn, Paul, A Measure for Peakedness, American statistician , 37(1), 1983, pp. 55-56
Journal title
American statistician → ACNP
ISSN journal
00031305
Volume
37
Issue
1
Year of publication
1983
Pages
55 - 56
Database
ACNP
SICI code
Abstract
The kurtosis has often been used to characterize the peakedness of a density.Unfortunately, the kurtosis does not exist for all densities.This article defines a measure of peakedness that exists for all symmetric unimodal densities.