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\section{Kurtosis}  \textit{Definition:} Measure of the peakiness of a data set (e.g., evenly distributed data have low kurtosis)  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurtosis  Note: eliminates spatial information, can be determined from a histogram of number of data points as a function of some variable.