# kurtosis {PerformanceAnalytics}

Kurtosis
Package:
PerformanceAnalytics
Version:
1.1.0

### Description

compute kurtosis of a univariate distribution

### Usage

kurtosis(x, na.rm = FALSE,
method = c("excess", "moment", "fisher", "sample", "sample_excess"),
...)


### Arguments

na.rm
a logical. Should missing values be removed?
method
a character string which specifies the method of computation. These are either "moment", "fisher", or "excess". If "excess" is selected, then the value of the kurtosis is computed by the "moment" method and a value of 3 will be subtracted. The "moment" method is based on the definitions of kurtosis for distributions; these forms should be used when resampling (bootstrap or jackknife). The "fisher" method correspond to the usual "unbiased" definition of sample variance, although in the case of kurtosis exact unbiasedness is not possible. The "sample" method gives the sample kurtosis of the distribution.
x
a numeric vector or object.
...
arguments to be passed.

### Details

This function was ported from the RMetrics package fUtilities to eliminate a dependency on fUtilties being loaded every time. This function is identical except for the addition of checkData and additional labeling.

where n is the number of return, \overline{r} is the mean of the return distribution, σ_P is its standard deviation and σ_{S_P} is its sample standard deviation

### References

Carl Bacon, Practical portfolio performance measurement and attribution, second edition 2008 p.84-85

skewness.

### Examples

## mean -
## var -
# Mean, Variance:
r = rnorm(100)
mean(r)
var(r)

## kurtosis -
kurtosis(r)

data(managers)
kurtosis(managers[,1:8])

data(portfolio_bacon)
print(kurtosis(portfolio_bacon[,1], method="sample")) #expected 3.03
print(kurtosis(portfolio_bacon[,1], method="sample_excess")) #expected -0.41
print(kurtosis(managers['1996'], method="sample"))
print(kurtosis(managers['1996',1], method="sample"))

### Author(s)

Diethelm Wuertz, Matthieu Lestel

Documentation reproduced from package PerformanceAnalytics, version 1.1.0. License: GPL