Let me write a function, in fact the literal thing I would do is to say, identify the things that change, give each of them a variable name because I want to refer to them, and then write a function that captures the rest of that computation just with those variable names inside.

让我来写个方法,实际上我的意思是，辨别出变化的东西,然后给它们逐个命名以区分,然后写一个用来计算,这些变量的,包括计算过程的方法。

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My personality is changing in a variety of other ways.

我的人格在以各种方式变化。

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We also need some measure of-- We've been talking here about measures of central tendency only and in finance we need, as well, measures of dispersion, which is how much something varies.

我们也需要其他的指标,目前为止,我们只讨论了集中趋势指标,在金融学中,我们同样需要,离散趋势指标以衡量参数的变化程度

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