👉 In statistics, leptokurtosis is a statistical distribution of data that has a U-shaped curve. This shape occurs when most data points are located near the mean (the middle) and the tails become thicker as you move further from this central value. Lepto means "less than" in Greek, and kurtosis refers to how much higher or lower the peak of a distribution is compared to its mode. A leptokurtic distribution has a high kurtosis, indicating that most
