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Definition of Peakedness
1. Noun. (chiefly in combination) The condition of having a (specified form of) peak ¹
2. Noun. (statistics) Sometimes used as a synonym for kurtosis ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Peakedness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Peakedness
Literary usage of Peakedness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Stochastic Inequalities by Moshe Shaked, Yung Liang Tong (1992)
"peakedness of weighted averages of jointly distributed random variables. ...
peakedness in multivariate distributions. In Statistical Decision Theory and ..."
2. Stochastic Orders and Decision Under Risk by Karl C. Mosler, Marco Scarsini (1991)
"As such, it may deserve more attention than it has yet received. See Levhari,
Paroush and Peleg (1975). 4.5. EXAMPLE (peakedness). ..."
3. Multivariate Analysis and Its Applications by Theodore Wilbur Anderson, Kʻai-tʻai Fang, Ingram Olkin (1994)
"peakedness in multivariate distributions. In Statistical Decision Theory and ...
peakedness of distributions of convex combinations. Ann. Math. Statist. ..."
4. Perspectives on Growth and Poverty by Rolph van der Hoeven, Anthony F. Shorrocks (2003)
"Thus the three-cluster models are consistent with the point of view that the
multiple-peakedness of life expectancy is an overridingly economic phenomenon. ..."
5. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (1889)
"exclaimed Miss Becky, in a tone that seemed to reproduce, by some curious agreement
of sight with- sound, her general aspect of peakedness. ..."
6. Collections of the Maine Historical Society by Maine Historical Society (1894)
"and quaint name without so much as a thought of the length and peakedness of
their hoods. Assuming that the Capuchin Fathers came to ..."
7. An Account of the Polynesian Race: Its Origins and Migrations, and the by Abraham Fornander, John F. G. Stokes (1885)
"Fiji., gata, sharp, as of a knife or a point, sharpness, peakedness; when of a
country, hilly; yaka, to sharpen. , Sanskr., ac vel co, to sharpen; acri, ..."
8. Theory and Calculation of Alternating Current Phenomena by Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1916)
"... while the magnetizing current, im, differs considerably from a sine wave, and
tends toward peakedness—the more the higher the magnetic induction, B, ..."
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