The Monthly Adjusted (For Dividends and Splits) Closing Stock Prices

question 69

Essay

The monthly adjusted (for dividends and splits) closing stock prices (rounded to the nearest dollar) for Gladstone Commercial Corp. and Kimco Realty Corp. for the last six months of 2010 are reported in the table below a. State the null and the alternative hypotheses to determine if the variance of price differs for the two firms.
B) What assumption regarding the population is necessary to implement this step?
C) Use Excel's F.TEST function to calculate the p-value.
D) At α = 0.05 what is your conclusion?

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Definitions:

Median

The midpoint of a set of scores.

Mean and Median

Statistical terms where mean refers to the average of a set of numbers, and median is the middle value when these numbers are arranged in order.

Measure of Central Tendency

A statistical measure that represents the center point or typical value of a dataset, commonly identified via the mean, median, or mode.

Variance

A statistical measure that represents the degree of spread or dispersion of a set of data points, calculating the average of the squared differences from the mean.