Kurtosis is used to ______.

A) measure the central tendency of the distribution
B) describe the shape of the distribution
C) measure the variance in the distribution
D) describe the range of a distribution

Kurtosis

A statistical measure that describes the shape of a distribution's tails in relation to a normal distribution.

Distribution

The way in which a set of values is spread or dispersed across a range, often visualized as a graph plotting the frequency of different outcomes.