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Application, difficulty 2 of 3

Fat tails in fund returns

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Calculate the excess kurtosis (G2G_2, as Excel KURT) of the daily returns growth_fund in asset_returns, to 2 decimal places.

Data: asset_returns · Open in the lab to explore and calculate.