SCENARIO 3-11

question 89

Short Answer

SCENARIO 3-11
Given below are the closing prices for the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA)and the Standard & Poor's (S&P)500 Index over 10-weeks sometime in the past.

-Referring to Scenario 3-11,what is the sample correlation coefficient between the DJIA and the S&P 500 index?

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