Which One of the Following Statements Is Correct

question 23

Multiple Choice

Which one of the following statements is correct?

• A)The standard deviation of the returns on Treasury bills is zero.
• B)Large-company stocks are historically riskier than small-company stocks.
• C)The variance is a means of measuring the volatility of returns on an investment.
• D)A risky asset will always have a higher annual rate of return than a riskless asset.
• E)There is an indirect relationship between risk and return.

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Definitions:

Sample Mean

is the average value of a subset of observations from a larger population.

Sample Variance

Sample variance is a measure of the dispersion or variability of a sample dataset, calculating how much the numbers differ from the sample mean.

Consistent

A statistical property indicating that as the size of the sample increases, the estimator converges in probability to the parameter being estimated.

Unbiased Estimators

Statistical estimators that, on average, accurately predict the value of a population parameter without systematic error.