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ISBN: 9781260574449

Author: RICHARDSON

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Chapter 4, Problem 2MCQ

In the late 1960s, Ed Altman developed a model to predict if a company was at severe risk of going bankrupt. He called his statistic Altman’s Z-score, now a widely used score in finance. Based on the name of the statistic, which statistical distribution would you guess this came from?

a. Normal distribution
b. Poisson distribution
c. Standardized normal distribution
d. Uniform distribution

Features Features Normal distribution is characterized by two parameters, mean (µ) and standard deviation (σ). When graphed, the mean represents the center of the bell curve and the graph is perfectly symmetric about the center. The mean, median, and mode are all equal for a normal distribution. The standard deviation measures the data's spread from the center. The higher the standard deviation, the more the data is spread out and the flatter the bell curve looks. Variance is another commonly used measure of the spread of the distribution and is equal to the square of the standard deviation.

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Solution Summary: The author identifies the statistical distribution from which the Altman's Z-score was derived.

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