Platykurtosis

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When a mommy platypus and a daddy platypus love each other very much, then they...

Eh, sorry. Platykurtosis is a term which refers to a continuous probability distribution with a peak that 's flatter than the peak on the Normal distribution, and has less data in the tails than the Normal distribution.

Imagine someone putting a Normal curve in one of those car crushers that first squashes the car from the left and right toward the middle, and then squishes it down, and you’ve got the idea.

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