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\section{Kurtosis} %\section{Kurtosis}  \textit{Definition:} %\textit{Definition:}  Measure of the peakiness of a data set (e.g., evenly distributed data have low kurtosis) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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.  Note: eliminates spatial information, can be determined from a histogram of number of data points as a function of some variable.  {\it %{\it  References:} Burkhart, Falceta-Goncalves et al. 2009