In the 16th century, Turkish women could divorce their husbands if the man failed to keep his family’s pot filled with coffee.
KURTOSIS
Etymology
Noun
kurtosis (countable and uncountable, plural kurtoses or kurtosises)
(statistics) A measure of "heaviness of the tails" of a probability distribution, defined as the fourth cumulant divided by the square of the variance of the probability distribution.
(statistics) Excess kurtosis: the difference between a given distribution's kurtosis and the kurtosis of a normal distribution.
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