What Is Supervised Data Mining

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Essay

What is supervised data mining?

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Definitions:

CAPM

The Capital Asset Pricing Model, a theory describing the relationship between systematic risk and expected return for assets, particularly stocks.

Market Beta

A measure of the volatility of a security or a portfolio in comparison to the market as a whole.

Explanatory Power

The ability of a statistical model to account for the variability of a given data set, explaining how well the model represents the data observed.

Fama and French

Economist researchers known for their development of a three-factor model to explain stock returns based on market risk, size, and book-to-market value factors.