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Article: Standard Deviation
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences;      700+ words ...Standard Deviation The standard deviation is found throughout the behavioral and social science ... are different. If everyone were exactly the same, the standard deviation would be zero. In addition to describing their data ...

Article: Investments - Seeing The Blind Spot: The measurement of ...
Financial Planning;  August 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ...It's common to use standard deviation of return as a measure of mutual ... simply, if two funds have a similar standard deviation of return, they are assumed to have comparable risk. Standard deviation measures the amount of volatility ...

Article: Mutual fund risk: standard deviation is not the ...
Money Digest;  October 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... you lose it in a steady fashion! STANDARD DEVIATION IGNORES THIS RISK Most mutual fund ... taken into account in computing the standard deviation. NOT THE ONLY MEASURE Is standard deviation any good at all? Yes, it can be ...

Article: Standard deviation: a risky measurement tool: ...
Money Digest;  June 1, 1998 ;     537 words ...Standard deviation is used to measure the volatility ... class. Generally, the higher the standard deviation, the higher the variability or ... funds. It has a three-year standard deviation of 5.0. The average Canadian ...

Dictionary definition: standard deviation
A Dictionary of Weights, Measures, and Units;      609 words ...standard deviation statistics. Symbol s.d ... compounding the scale factor. The standard deviation is the square root of the variance ... Together with the mean, the standard deviation gives a first-level indication ...

Article: Why does standard deviation mislead? ...
Money Digest;  October 1, 1996 ;     483 words ... ... Mutual fund analysts constantly use standard deviation as a measure of risk, although recently ... only risk there is; and 2) the standard deviation is an absolute measure of volatility ... one aspect of it. Secondly, the standard deviation is not an absolute measure of volatility ...

Article: Metrics Matter: Without Forecast Standard Deviation ...
Mortgage Technology;  January 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... also means understanding Forecast Standard Deviation. The benefit of FSD is that it statistically ... expected (forecasted) proportional standard deviation around actual subsequent sales price ... sigma to refer to other measures of standard deviation. These measures are not forecast ...