mesokurtic

adj. describing a frequency distribution that is neither flatter nor more peaked than the normal distribution. That is, a mesokurtic arrangement of values follows a bell-shaped curve, with the majority of scores clustered around a value at the midpoint and a few extreme scores tapering off on either side. See also platykurtic; leptokurtic.

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