Almost every day you can find in media commentary that XYZ is causing stocks to fall (or rise). Such definitive statements are common—but what’s almost always missing is statistical proof. And if you ...

What is Pearson correlation test, Pearson product moment correlation or Pearson r? Pearson’s correlation helps us understand the relationship between two quantitative variables when the relationship ...

Investors understand intuitively that some stocks are riskier than others. The capital asset pricing model attempts to quantify the common perception of risk using a term called beta. By understanding ...

For a sample of n pairs of observations from a bivariate normal distribution in which X and Y have the same coefficient of variation c, we derive the equations for the m. l. estimator ρ̂ of ρ. The ...