Compute the kurtosis of standard Gaussian distribution


In this post, we will derive the kurtosis of stand Gaussian distribution

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is 3. We use the following equation to calculate the fourth central moment

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The fourth central moment is

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Therefore, the kurtosis is

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For an application of Kurtosis analysis in saliency detection/in-focus segmentation, please refer to our paper and source code.

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