Variability in Daily Change in Stock Price. Consider a day when the Dow Jones Industrial Average went up 149.82 points. The following table shows the stock price changes for a sample of 12 companies on that day. Compute the sample variance for the daily price change. Compute the sample standard deviation for the price change Provide 95% confidence interval estimates of the population variance and the population standard deviation.

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Variability in Daily Change in Stock Price. Consider a day when the Dow Jones Industrial Average went up 149.82 points. The following table shows the stock price changes for a sample of 12 companies on that day.

  1. Compute the sample variance for the daily price change.
  2. Compute the sample standard deviation for the price change
  3. Provide 95% confidence interval estimates of the population variance and the population standard deviation.

Price Change                                       Price Change

Company               ($)                     Company                                 ($)

Aflac                    0.81                         Johnson & Johnson                    1.46

Altice USA            0.41                         Loews Corporation                    0.92

Bank of America  -0.05                        Nokia Corporation                    0.21

Diageo plc           1.32                         Sempra Energy                          0.97

Fluor Corporation   2.37                     Sunoco LP                                  0.52

Goodrich Petroleum    0.3                   Tyson Foods, Inc.                      0.12

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