fat tail (English, noun)
expansion: fat tail (plural fat tails)
Senses:
glosses: A mass of fat stored in the rump of a beast as an adaptation to heat and harsh environmental conditions or selection by man.
glosses: The relatively high probability of a relatively extreme outcome.
topics: mathematics
probability
sciences
statistics
glosses: A tail of a probability distribution with significantly higher kurtosis than a normal distribution (which has kurtosis = 0).
topics: mathematics
probability
sciences
statistics
glosses: A tail of a probability distribution with infinite variance.
Forms:
form: fat tails
tags: plural
form: fat-tail
tags: alternative
form: fattail
tags: alternative