SCENARIO 13-7 -Referring to Scenario 13-7, to Test Whether the Prison Stocks

question 30

Multiple Choice

SCENARIO 13-7
-Referring to Scenario 13-7, to test whether the prison stocks portfolio is negatively related to
The S&P 500 index, the measured value of the test statistic is

• A) -7.019
• B) -0.503
• C) 0.072
• D) 0.357

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