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- Introduced the measure for centrality - the mean.
- Introduced the measure for spread - the variance.
- Learnt the rules for the calculation of a mean and variance.
- Looked at a joint summary measure, the covariance.
- Saw that means add but variances don't
- Saw the rules for the mean and variance of a combination (portfolio)
of random variables.
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Richard Waterman
1999-06-11