While Excel is useful for many applications, it is an indispensable tool for those managing statistics. Two common terms used in statistics are Standard Deviation and ...

Using Microsoft Excel you can create charts based on the data and formulas entered in a worksheet. Enter a sample range of numbers in Excel as if you were at an event asking people their ages, for ...

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 ...

Standard deviation is a widely used metric to ascertain the investment risk of mutual funds. The concept of Standard Deviation becomes important when you invest in a market-linked product like mutual ...

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