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  • adjective statistics Having a fat tail; leptokurtic.

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Examples

  • A few years ago, scientists working in Madagascar discovered that at least one primate species, the fat-tailed dwarf lemur, hibernates.

    Many species use hibernation to survive the rigors of winter Ben Harder 2010

  • Fattail or fat-tailed scorpion is the common name given to scorpions of the genus Androctonus, one of the most dangerous groups of scorpion species in the world.

    Realistic Scorpion Papercraft | Papercraft Paradise | PaperCrafts | Paper Models | Card Models Michael James 2008

  • From the ambiguity of tea to the farmers 'long-horned cattle and fat-tailed sheep originally bred from indigenous stock, these household inventories actually reflect African elements of colonial life, though they are listed in terms that might otherwise be read as strictly European, like crockery and farm animals.

    Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa 2008

  • A few years ago, scientists working in Madagascar discovered that at least one primate species, the fat-tailed dwarf lemur, hibernates.

    Many species use hibernation to survive the rigors of winter Ben Harder 2010

  • Herds of cattle or horses grazed the dry, brown grasses of the open steppe, with now and again a huge flock of fat-tailed sheep and a solitary shepherd on horseback.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Morningstar's Ibbotson Associates unit in recent months built fat-tailed assumptions into its Monte Carlo simulations, which estimate the odds of reaching retirement financial goals.

    Some Funds Stop Grading on the Curve 2009

  • We were soon out of Osh and ambling through a landscape of small fields of maize, cotton and rice, past shepherds and cowherds in the road with flocks of fat-tailed sheep or cattle we always narrowly missed.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • And it doesn't fully gauge risk in a fat-tailed world.

    Some Funds Stop Grading on the Curve 2009

  • Herds of cattle or horses grazed the dry, brown grasses of the open steppe, with now and again a huge flock of fat-tailed sheep and a solitary shepherd on horseback.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • We were soon out of Osh and ambling through a landscape of small fields of maize, cotton and rice, past shepherds and cowherds in the road with flocks of fat-tailed sheep or cattle we always narrowly missed.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

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