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7. Summary

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Introduced the measure for centrality - the mean.
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Introduced the measure for spread - the variance.
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Learnt the rules for the calculation of a mean and variance.
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Looked at a joint summary measure, the covariance.
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Saw that means add but variances don't
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Saw the rules for the mean and variance of a combination (portfolio) of random variables.


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Richard Waterman
1999-06-11