Moment coefficient of kurtosis for grouped data

Let $(x_i,f_i), i=1,2, \cdots , n$ be given frequency distribution. The mean of $X$ is denoted by $\overline{x}$ and is given by $$ \begin{eqnarray*} \overline{x}& =\frac{1}{N}\sum_{i=1}^{n}f_ix_i \end{eqnarray*} $$

Formula

The moment coefficient of kurtosis $\beta_2$ is defined as

$\beta_2=\dfrac{m_4}{m_2^2}$

The moment coefficient of kurtosis $\gamma_2$ is defined as

$\gamma_2=\beta_2-3$

where

  • $N=\sum_i f_i$ total number of observations
  • $\overline{x}$ sample mean
  • $m_2 =\frac{1}{N}\sum_{i=1}^n f_i(x_i-\overline{x})^2$ is second central moment
  • $m_4 =\frac{1}{N}\sum_{i=1}^n f_i(x_i-\overline{x})^4$ is fourth central moment

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