December is also the least historically volatile month, with a standard deviation of returns of 3.17%.
It's lost 0.3% a year over three years with a standard deviation of 14%.
Ideally, reviews and user reviews should generally fall within a standard deviation of each other.
Investments with a high standard deviation over one year have a lower standard deviation when measured over longer periods.
The MSCI Emerging Markets Index is only about a half of a standard deviation from its mean over the same time frame.
Since Jan 2001, Life Science investing as a percentage of total VC investing each quarter has averaged 26% with a standard deviation of only 5%.
To make all the curves comparable, he expressed the values of the actual deviations as fractions of a standard deviation, and their frequencies as proportions of their total number.
The no-rebalancing strategy had a standard deviation of 12.7%.
If you rank the countries of the world in terms of the academic performance of their schoolchildren, the U.S. is just below average, half a standard deviation below a clump of relatively high-performing countries like Canada and Belgium.
In STAC (The Securities Technology Analysis Center) benchmarking, Solarflare and IBM achieved a top tested speed of 2.3 million messages per second with a mean latency of 14 microseconds and a standard deviation of latency at 2 microseconds using standard Ethernet and UDP protocols.
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Counting up wins in a season relative to the competition (how balanced was the league in each season?) yielded us a G-Score, as in "greatness, " a standard deviation measurement that shows the degree to which a team stood out among the field in a given year.
What I do know is that for the limited data set I have, the CRB index produced a nominal compound return of 0.77%, a real return of minus 2.16%, a standard deviation that is twice that of Treasuries, had a twelve month period with a loss of 48.74% and had a 27 year period with a negative compound return.
Be careful not to become too enamored with the descriptive name or targeted sector of the portfolio because far too many of them tend to do a predictable standard deviation around a larger market index.
Or there is no investment with a lower standard deviation for the same expected return.
Nine World Series champions--the first nine clubs on our list--have registered less than a full standard deviation above the mean in the year they won.
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.
It has done somewhat better, losing 0.8% annually the past three years with a 9% standard deviation.
It also points to a wide standard of deviation in its results that shows how some sites remain very vulnerable even as others patch their flaws.
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After all, for more than a decade, the number of start-ups acquired each year has averaged in the mid-300s, with a pretty tight standard deviation no matter the economic climate.
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The Twins' 0.525 winning percentage fell within that standard range, translating to a score of less than one standard deviation above the 0.500 mean.
For example, two of eight American League clubs in 1927 posted winning percentages below .400, leading to a league-wide standard deviation of .123 percentage points above and below the average .500 record.
People have more vivid memories of the colorful, Super Bowl Shuffling 1985 Bears (also 15-1 with a second-best all time standard deviation of 2.10), because that club was a one-year wonder that never got back to a Super Bowl.
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If life in these United States were a role playing game, the lowest difficulty setting would probably be a straight white male who is one standard deviation above mean height. (Unless you are a good enough athlete to get into the NBA being much taller than that is not so good) Tall people have never been denied the right to vote.
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Proof of this can be found in the standard deviation, a measure of how volatile annual returns were.
Consumer staples, which had a 10-year annualized standard deviation of just 13%.
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We generated lots of interest when we showed our standard deviation chart a few weeks ago, so I updated it through September 13.
One standard deviation is a good measurement to use.
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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.
Pessimism not only stayed at its lowest level since December 23, 2010, it also remained at a reading that is more than one standard deviation below the historical average of 30%.
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