Beyond standard deviation: How skewness and kurtosis capture market extremes

Standard deviation, while common, inadequately captures investment risk due to its equal treatment of gains and losses and ...

Measure Stock Volatility with Historical Data: A Practical Approach

Learn how using historical data, instead of standard deviation, offers a more accurate assessment of stock volatility and risk management strategies.

How Expected Return and Standard Deviation Impact Your Portfolio

Expected return and standard deviation can help you analyze investment portfolios. Learn their differences, uses, and ...
Bleacher Report

Measuring Week-To-Week Consistency With Standard Deviation

Choosing a roster with Matt Schaub, Adrian Peterson, Jamal Lewis, and Chad Johnson might win you four or five weeks by a large margin, but you'll lose all the weeks those four put up single digits. In ...
Business Insider

Here's What Nerds Mean When They Say 'Standard Deviation'

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What Is the Difference Between Mean Scores & Standard Deviation?

Somewhere back in your middle school and high school math classes, you no doubt learned about the mean and standard deviation as fairly fundamental concepts in arithmetic and statistics. You also knew ...