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For kurtosis, similarly expand the quartic and break up the sum as before. Then,
\begin{align*} & \frac{\sum_{k=1}^n ( x_k-\mu )^4}{n}\\ & = \frac{\sum_{k=1}^n x_k^4}{n} - 4 \mu \frac{\sum_{k=1}^n x_k^3 }{n} + 6 \mu^2 \frac{\sum_{k=1}^n x_k^2}{n} - 4 \mu^3 \frac{\sum_{k=1}^n x_k}{n} + \frac{\sum_{k=1}^n \mu^4}{n}\\ & = \frac{\sum_{k=1}^n x_k^4}{n} - 4 \mu \frac{\sum_{k=1}^n x_k^3 }{n} + 6 \mu^2 (v + \mu^2) - 4 \mu^4 + \mu^4\\ & = \frac{\sum_{k=1}^n x_k^4}{n} - 4 \mu \frac{\sum_{k=1}^n x_k^3 }{n} + 6 \mu^2 v - 3 \mu^4 \end{align*}
and then divide by the fourth power of the standard deviation. Note again that the first expansion in the derivation above might also be a useful shortcut.
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