If investors want portfolios with small risk (variance), should they look for investments that have positive covariance, have negative covariance, or are uncorrelated? Does a portfolio formed from the mix of three investments have more risk (variance) than a portfolio formed from two?

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Q: Suppose a population has three values 13, 17 and 24. What is its variance?

A: Given: n=3 The mean of the data is obtained as below: Mean=∑xn=13+17+243=543=18 The mean is 18.

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Q: 2) If all of the values in a set of data were doubled, what would happen to the variance?

A: We need to use the concept of variance.

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Q: State the properties of Co- variance;

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Q: What is variance?

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Q: State the null and alternative hypothesis for the data

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Q: If the assumption of constant variance is violated, you can transform the response data True or…

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Q: Find the variance of these data

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Q: find out Microsoft’s alpha, beta, and the fraction of its variance attributed to market risk.

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Q: If only the median or mean incomes of the employees in a company are only reported, two companies…

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Q: A mutual funds company’s newsletter says, “A well-diversified portfolio includes assets with low…

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Q: what test is used to determine whether two population means are different when the variance are…

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Q: 21. An investor is considering two types of investment. She is quite satisfied that the expected…

A: Given information: n1=7, n2=10s12=225, s22=118

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Q: Express variance of a variable X in terms of conditional variances.

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Q: How do I get the variance ?

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Q: Once the correlation coefficient is known, how can we find the amount of the shared variance?

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