What Is the Standard Deviation of the Payoff from an Investment

question 41

Multiple Choice

What is the standard deviation of the payoff from an investment that yields $1,000,000 with a probability of 0.001 and $0 with a probability of 0.999?

• A) $998,001,000
• B) $999,000
• C) $316.07
• D) $31,606.96

Determine the appropriate statistical test for comparing multiple populations with multiple categories.

Distinguish between different statistical tests based on data type, problem objective, and the number of categories.

Understand the role of the chi-squared goodness-of-fit test and its applications.

Grasp the concept of degrees of freedom in the context of statistical testing, particularly with the chi-squared test for normality.

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