Jason Fernando is a professional investor and writer who enjoys tackling and communicating complex business and financial problems. David Kindness is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and an expert ...

Almost every day you can find in media commentary that XYZ is causing stocks to fall (or rise). Such definitive statements are common—but what’s almost always missing is statistical proof. And if you ...

Investors understand intuitively that some stocks are riskier than others. The capital asset pricing model attempts to quantify the common perception of risk using a term called beta. By understanding ...

What is Pearson correlation test, Pearson product moment correlation or Pearson r? Pearson’s correlation helps us understand the relationship between two quantitative variables when the relationship ...

What is a correlation coefficient? In this series, we’ve discussed Royal Dutch Shell’s (RDS.A) divestment plan, its Motiva asset division, its stock’s rise above its 50-day moving average, its ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The distribution of the sample correlation coefficient is derived when the population is a mixture of two bivariate normal distributions with ...