You Need to Decide Whether You Should Invest in a Particular

question 175

Multiple Choice

You need to decide whether you should invest in a particular stock. You would like to invest if the price is likely to rise in the long run. You have data on the daily average price of this stock over the past 12 months. Your best action is to

• A) estimate a least square trend model.
• B) compute the MAD statistic.
• C) compute moving averages.
• D) perform exponential smoothing.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

A measure of the amount of variation or dispersion of a set of values, indicating how much the individual values in a data set differ from the mean.

Positively Correlated

A statistical relationship where two variables move in the same direction; as one increases, the other tends to increase as well.

Midterm

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Final Exam

A comprehensive test given at the end of an academic course or term, assessing a student's understanding and knowledge of the covered material.