Learn the differences between Z-Score and Standard Deviation. Discover how they are calculated and used to evaluate market ...

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For example, suppose that the manufacturing process described in the previous example produces engines whose weights are normally distributed with a mean of 1250 and a standard deviation of 12. The ...

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In response to my article, Is the Stock Market Too Concentrated?, which relied upon standard-deviation calculations to assess investment risk, a reader wrote: “My problem [with your argument] is ...

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