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Organizing, visualizing, and describing investment data

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Lesson 2 of 5 · Quantitative methods

Organizing, visualizing, and describing investment data

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Organize and present data using tables, frequency distributions, and appropriate graphical displays for different data types.
Distinguish between types of data, including cross-sectional and time-series data, and between categorical and numerical variables.
Calculate and interpret measures of central tendency, including arithmetic mean, geometric mean, weighted mean, median, and mode.

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Calculate and interpret measures of dispersion and shape, including range, mean absolute deviation, variance, standard deviation, skewness, and kurtosis.

Evaluate the advantages and limitations of common descriptive statistics when summarizing investment returns and other financial data.

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