FATTAIL

fat tail

Noun

  1. The relatively high probability of a relatively extreme outcome.
  2. A tail of a probability distribution with significantly higher kurtosis than a normal distribution (which has kurtosis = 0).
  3. A tail of a probability distribution with infinite variance.


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