In a similar way to the concept of skewness, kurtosis is a descriptor of the shape of a probability distribution.
Besides I would imagine if we used the term "People Without Color," that wouldn't set well with those that it would be a descriptor of.
You can trace it back centuries, to a time when there was a literal gentry responsible for social cleansing; when the bailiffs were on horseback and "artisanal" was a descriptor of a pre-industrial social class, rather than vogueish hipster branding.
Although this score has been designed specifically in the setting of acute myocardial infarction, it was used in this study as it is a widely known descriptor of the severity of heart failure.
It's a benign descriptor of size.
Only one principal component was extracted; it was a reliable descriptor of flight performance, showing high factor loadings for all flight measures (eigenvalue = 1.55; factor loading for manoeuvrability = 0.74, maximum acceleration = 0.65 and maximum velocity = 0.76).
At the Pet Food Institute in Washington, the industry trade association, Stephen Payne, the public relations manager, said, "We don't have a position on the issue of human grade, because it is not a descriptor of pet food recognized by the American Association of Feed Control Officials".
Cheekiness aside, fans of HNNY will agree, it's an apt descriptor of the artist's vibrant, carefree brand of house music.
It can be concluded that reducing the maximum number of spheres to 4 does not significantly affect the quality of predictions, but further reduces the number of descriptors considerably – it is a satisfying balance of accuracy and model size, and is kept for further studies.
During pre-processing we removed descriptor LCALC_NDA as it was a linear combinations of others, leaving 22 descriptors for model building.
