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"Correlation doesn't imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing 'look over there.'" Randall Munroe, Science & Math Cartoonist Chances are when ...

Almost every day you can find in media commentary that XYZ is causing stocks to fall (or rise). Such definitive statements are common—but what’s almost always missing is statistical proof. And if you ...

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Adding an asset that aims to generate positive returns uncorrelated with the equity, bond or credit market (like an equity market neutral strategy represented by the Credit Suisse Equity Market ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The need to quantify agreement between two raters or two methods of measuring a response often arises in research. Kappa statistics ...