Here is a quick overview for an understanding a standard deviation chart data set. You can see how the examples of the data will fall within one standard deviation of the mean for approximately 68% of ...

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The hedge-fund return patterns are more important than historical returns. In our first article about hedge funds for Financial Advisor, we indicated that the pattern of returns was more important ...

Flickr via Google Images Standard deviation is a concept that's thrown around frequently in finance. So what is it? When working with a quantitative data set, one of the first things we want to know ...

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