Long tail is a consumer demographic in business.

Long tail or longtail may also refer to:

Science

  • Long-tail distribution, a probability distribution that assigns relatively high probabilities to regions far from the mean or median
  • The Long Tail (book), a popular book about the effect of Long Tail on the web media
  • Power law's long tail, a statistics term describing certain kinds of distribution
  • Long-tail traffic, telecommunication traffic that exhibits a long-tail distribution

Technology and business

  • Long-tail boat, a type of watercraft native to Southeast Asia
  • Longtail (bicycle), a two-wheeled rear-loading freight bicycle, with a longer than usual frame wheelbase
  • Longtail Studios, Canadian video game company
  • Langheck (longtail), variants of the Porsche 907, Porsche 908 and Porsche 917

Animals

  • Longtail (rat), euphemism used to denote a rat on the Isle of Man
  • Longtail tuna, a species of tuna of tropical Indo-West Pacific waters
  • Long-tailed macaque, also called the crab-eating macaque
  • White-tailed tropicbird, or longtail in Bermuda, a type of bird

See also

  • Skewness