R: Finding the Kurtosis coefficient

kurtosis {agricolae} | R Documentation

## Finding the Kurtosis coefficient

### Description

It obtains the value of the kurtosis for a normally distributed variable. The result is similar to SAS.

### Usage

    kurtosis(x)

### Arguments

`x` | a numeric vector

### Value

`x` | The kurtosis of x

### See Also

`skewness`

### Examples

    library(agricolae)
    x<-c(3,4,5,2,3,4,5,6,4,NA,7)
    kurtosis(x)
    # value is -0.1517996

[Package agricolae version 1.2-8 Index]