The kurtosis excess of a distribution is sometimes called the excess, or excess coefficient.
In graph theory, excess refers to the quantity
 |
(1)
|
for a 
-regular graph 
on 
nodes with girth 
, where
 |
(2)
|
(Biggs and Ito 1980, Wong 1982). A 
-cage graph having 
vertices (i.e., the minimal number, so that
the excess is 
)
is called a Moore graph.
