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title: kurtosis
description: This documentation page provides detailed information about Kurtosis
  Indicator and how to plot rolling kurtosis with OpenBB-finance's tool. It includes
  source code links and parameters needed for these python functions.
keywords:
- OpenBB-finance
- Kurtosis Indicator
- Plotting Kurtosis
- Quantitative Analysis
- Python Functions
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Kurtosis Indicator

Source Code: [[link](https://github.com/OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal/tree/main/openbb_terminal/common/quantitative_analysis/rolling_model.py#L123)]

```python
openbb.qa.kurtosis(data: pd.DataFrame, window: int = 14)
```

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## Parameters

| Name | Type | Description | Default | Optional |
| ---- | ---- | ----------- | ------- | -------- |
| data | pd.DataFrame | Dataframe of targeted data | None | False |
| window | int | Length of window | 14 | True |


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## Returns

| Type | Description |
| ---- | ----------- |
| pd.DataFrame | Dataframe of rolling kurtosis |
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Plots rolling kurtosis

Source Code: [[link](https://github.com/OpenBB-finance/OpenBBTerminal/tree/main/openbb_terminal/common/quantitative_analysis/rolling_view.py#L424)]

```python
openbb.qa.kurtosis_chart(symbol: str, data: pd.DataFrame, target: str, window: int = 14, export: str = "", external_axes: Optional[List[matplotlib.axes._axes.Axes]] = None)
```

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## Parameters

| Name | Type | Description | Default | Optional |
| ---- | ---- | ----------- | ------- | -------- |
| symbol | str | Ticker | None | False |
| data | pd.DataFrame | Dataframe of stock prices | None | False |
| target | str | Column in data to look at | None | False |
| window | int | Length of window | 14 | True |
| export | str | Format to export data |  | True |
| external_axes | Optional[List[plt.Axes]] | External axes (2 axes are expected in the list), by default None | None | True |


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## Returns

This function does not return anything

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