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fat tail en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio

Meanings

1. A mass of fat stored in the rump of a beast as an adaptation to heat and harsh environmental conditions or selection by man.
2. The relatively high probability of a relatively extreme outcome.
3. A tail of a probability distribution with significantly higher kurtosis than a normal distribution (which has kurtosis = 0).
4. A tail of a probability distribution with infinite variance.

Forms

Relateds

fat-tailed · black swan

Synonyms

heavy tail (high probability of extreme outcome) · leptokurtosis (tail of distribution with positive kurtosis)

Translations (21)

arc ܐܠܝܬܐ (fat-tail of beast) · myz ࡀࡋࡉࡕࡀ (fat-tail of beast) · alt јуулу куйрук (fat-tail of beast) · de Fettschwanz (fat-tail of beast) · arc אֲלִיתָא (fat-tail of beast) · syc ܐܠܝܬܐ (fat-tail of beast) · arc אֲלִּיתָא (fat-tail of beast) · fi rasvahäntä (fat-tail of beast) · ar أَلْيَة (fat-tail of beast) · sv fettsvans (fat-tail of beast) · kmr dûv (fat-tail of beast) · alt куйрук (fat-tail of beast) · ckb دووڤ (fat-tail of beast) · kk құйрық (fat-tail of beast) · arc אלייתה (fat-tail of beast) · stv ላት (fat-tail of beast) · har ለት (fat-tail of beast) · arc אֲלִּיתָה (fat-tail of beast) · he אַלְיָה (fat-tail of beast) · am ላት (fat-tail of beast) · ru курдю́к (fat-tail of beast)