If a distribution has "fat tails," it exhibits
A. positive skewness.
B. negative skewness.
C. a kurtosis of zero.
D. kurtosis.
E. positive skewness and kurtosis.
D. kurtosis.
Kurtosis is a measure of the tails of a distribution, or "fat tails."
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