Organising, Visualising, and Describing Data

Data Types and Data Organisation

A fund house classifies the stocks it analyses on a 3-interval scale: Sell, Hold, and Buy. What kind of measurement scale is this?

Summarising and Visualising Data

Given the frequency distribution, what is the relative frequency of the interval [10% to 20%]?

Summarising and Visualising Data

Which of the following is MOST appropriate for visualising the relationship between GDP growth and company sales.

Measures of Central Tendency

The returns of a stock for the past four years are as follows:

-27%, -32%, 86%, 45%

An analyst wishes to estimate the expected return of the stock in the future. What is the most appropriate value?

Measures of Dispersion

The annual returns of a stock for the past 30 years have a mean of 8.2%, and a standard deviation of 13.4%. what is the coefficient of variation of the stock?

Measures of Dispersion

The annual returns of a stock for the past 30 years have a mean of 8.2%, and a standard deviation of 13.4%. What is the Sharpe ratio of the stock, given that the risk free rate is 3%?

Skewness and Kurtosis in Returns Distributions

A distribution that has a sample kurtosis value of 0.35. Which term most accurately describes the distribution.

Skewness and Kurtosis in Returns Distributions

A distribution has its median smaller than its mode. The distribution is most likely:

Measures of Central Tendency

A portfolio manager split the sale of a mutual fund into 3 equal transactions (in $ terms). The price sold per unit for the 3 transactions was $103, 105, and $99.

What is the average price sold per unit?