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  2. How to use beta to evaluate a stock’s risk - AOL

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    To calculate beta, investors divide the covariance of an individual stock (say, Apple) with the overall market, often represented by the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, by the variance of the ...

  3. Beta distribution - Wikipedia

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    In probability theory and statistics, the beta distribution is a family of continuous probability distributions defined on the interval [0, 1] or (0, 1) in terms of two positive parameters, denoted by alpha (α) and beta (β), that appear as exponents of the variable and its complement to 1, respectively, and control the shape of the distribution.

  4. Pearson correlation coefficient - Wikipedia

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    Pearson's correlation coefficient is the covariance of the two variables divided by the product of their standard deviations. The form of the definition involves a "product moment", that is, the mean (the first moment about the origin) of the product of the mean-adjusted random variables; hence the modifier product-moment in the name.

  5. Covariance and correlation - Wikipedia

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    where E is the expected value operator. Notably, correlation is dimensionless while covariance is in units obtained by multiplying the units of the two variables. If Y always takes on the same values as X, we have the covariance of a variable with itself (i.e. ), which is called the variance and is more commonly denoted as the square of the ...

  6. Alpha vs. beta in investing: What’s the difference? - AOL

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    How to calculate beta. Beta is calculated by taking the covariance between the return of an asset and the return of the market and dividing it by the variance of the market. The measure is ...

  7. Beta (finance) - Wikipedia

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    Beta (finance) Expected change in price of a stock relative to the whole market. In finance, the beta (β or market beta or beta coefficient) is a statistic that measures the expected increase or decrease of an individual stock price in proportion to movements of the stock market as a whole. Beta can be used to indicate the contribution of an ...

  8. Covariance - Wikipedia

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    Covariance. The sign of the covariance of two random variables X and Y. Covariance in probability theory and statistics is a measure of the joint variability of two random variables. [1] The sign of the covariance, therefore, shows the tendency in the linear relationship between the variables. If greater values of one variable mainly correspond ...

  9. Simple linear regression - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. In statistics, simple linear regression (SLR) is a linear regression model with a single explanatory variable. [1][2][3][4][5] That is, it concerns two-dimensional sample points with one independent variable and one dependent variable (conventionally, the x and y coordinates in a Cartesian coordinate system) and finds a linear function ...