It has been commonly admitted that the meaning of a descriptive feature of distributions is given by an ordering and that the measures for this feature are meaningful only if they preserve the ordering. However, while many multivariate kurtosis measures have been introduced, multivariate...

Given a multivariate probability distribution F, a corresponding depth function orders points according to their "centrality" in the distribution F. One useful role of depth functions is to generate two-dimensional curves for convenient and practical description of particular features of a...

In this paper, a family of kurtosis orderings for multivariate distributions is proposed and studied. Each ordering characterizes in an affine invariant sense the movement of probability mass from the "shoulders" of a distribution to either the center or the tails or both. All even moments of...