A particular interest in finance is fat-tailed alternatives.

金融学中另一个特别感兴趣的是厚尾替代品。

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You can see that the dash distribution I drew has more out in the tails, so we call it fat-tailed.

你们可以看到，虚线画的这个分布，尾部要长很多，所以我们叫它长尾分布。

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Even more surprising was the 2011 discovery of the fat-tailed antechinus in the area. (Doug Humann)

更为令人吃惊的是，2011年在该地区发现了胖尾袋鼩。

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You can see that the dash distribution I drew has more out in the tails, so we call it fat-tailed.

你们可以看到,虚线画的这个分布,尾部要长很多,所以我们叫它长尾分布

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It's a very important observation in finance that returns on a lot of speculative assets have fat-tailed distributions.

在金融界中,这是一种重要的观测方法,许多投机性资产的收益,都是服从长尾分布的

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This refers to random variables that have fat-tailed distributions-- random variables that occasionally give you really big outcomes.

这就表示,服从长尾分布的随机变量,这些数据出现极端值的概率比较大

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By contrast, in fat-tailed distributions, the median is extremely small compared to the mean, meaning that the probability of infrequent events is enormous.

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