DOC: Clarify definition of kurtosis used #9437
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Trivial PR to better explain how kurtosis is computed. When checking the calculation, I noticed 2 lines that were unused to also removes those. |
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Added explation that kurtosis returned is Fisher's kurtosis, also known as excess kurtosis. Also cleans up the kurtosis function to remove some unused computations.
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Indeed on the first use of |
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Added explation that kurtosis returned is Fisher's kurtosis, also
known as excess kurtosis.
Also cleans up the kurtosis function to remove some unused computations.