Mode Mean: Kurtosis

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Mode mean

The mode of a set of data values is the value that appears most
often. If X is a discrete random variable, the mode is the value x
at which the probability mass function takes its maximum value.
In other words, it is the value that is most likely to be sampled.
Like the statistical mean and median, the mode is a way of
expressing, in a usually single number, important information
about a random variable or a population. The numerical value of
the mode is the same as that of the mean and median in a normal
distribution, and it may be very different in highly skewed
distributions.

Kurtosis
Kurtosis is a statistical measure that is used to describe
the distribution. Whereas skewness differentiates extreme
values in one versus the other tail, kurtosis measures
extreme values in either tail. Distributions with large
kurtosis exhibit tail data exceeding the tails of the normal
distribution (e.g., five or more standard deviations from
the mean).

Distributions with low kurtosis exhibit tail data that are


generally less extreme than the tails of the normal
distribution.
For investors, high kurtosis of the return distribution
implies that the investor will experience occasional
extreme returns (either positive or negative), more
extreme than the usual + or - three standard deviations
from the mean that is predicted by the normal distribution
of returns.

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