Or there is no investment with a lower standard deviation for the same expected return.
This is similar to the CAPM, but with standard deviation standing in for beta.
If you find a deviation, look for a better managed index fund.
The problem is Vegas is entirely programmed, with an irritating attention to what its executives think I want but which leaves little room for deviation from their plan.
Standard deviation also adjusts for periodic changes in scheduling balance over the years, such as the breakdown of each league into two (and then three) divisions, and interleague play.
The standard deviation of returns for quadruple witching expiration weeks is only 2.2% which is considerably less than typical weeks, with a standard deviation of returns of more than 3%.
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Thus, a reading above 50% for bullish sentiment would be one standard deviation above average and a reading of 41% for bearish sentiment would be one standard deviation above the average.
Table 3 below provides a summary of the annualized standard deviation and returns for each asset class, the weighted average risk and return and the total portfolio risk and return from January 1979 through December 2009.
In Third World rhetoric, "corruption" as often as not is a euphemism for political deviation.
Pilots are required to fly under the direction of air traffic controllers but federal regulations allow for some deviation in emergency situations.
The qualifications of most of these players are already very well known, and injury will be the most likely culprit for any deviation from pre-season rankings.
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The most efficient investments are those such that no other investment has a higher return for the same amount of standard deviation.
To equalize the measurement of team performance across eras, we've created the G-score (as in "greatness"), basically a zippy name for what statistical connoisseurs call standard deviation.
For example, I just calculated the standard deviation of the temperatures measured at one instant by 14 weather stations located in my county.
The Kims are well aware of the hatred their rule imbues among the populace, cementing their closely held belief that any deviation from the path of consistent and harsh leadership spells the end for them and their closely guarded privilege.
He accepted the use of the vacation homes of supporters, a deviation from the usual rules that strongly frown on presidents accepting valuable gifts for their own use.
An electoral court sentenced him for saying gays were "immoral" and suffered from "severe deviation of conduct" during the February election campaign.
In the chart below, the potential for profit can be identified when the price ratio hits its first or second deviation.
We sought to account for the variations of baseball's different eras with the tried and true tool of standard deviation, which allowed us to look past raw win totals to measure the degree to which a team stood above the pack in a given season.
Q. tests in the early part of the past century, for example, they recorded median scores in the high seventies and low eighties, a full standard deviation below their American and Western European counterparts.
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