In Order to Reduce Risk in a Firm, the Firm

question 80

Multiple Choice

In order to reduce risk in a firm, the firm would seek to enter a business that

• A) has high positive correlation with its present business.
• B) has zero correlation with its present business.
• C) has high negative correlation with its present business.
• D) none of the other answers are correct

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Definitions:

Curve Following

The practice of tracing the path or line that best fits the pattern of a dataset, often used in trend analysis.

Sample Variance

The measure of variation or spread within a sample set of data, calculated by averaging the squared deviations from the sample mean.

Population Variance

A measure of the dispersion of a set of data points in a population from their mean value, representing how spread out the population values are.

Unbiased Estimator

A statistical estimator whose expected value equals the true value of the parameter it estimates.