Statistica descriptivă a seriilor de timp financiare

Stefanescu, Răzvan and Dumitriu, Ramona (2016): Statistica descriptivă a seriilor de timp financiare.

Abstract

Descriptive statistics facilitates the revealing of some important features of the financial variables evolutions. In this paper we present some indicators of the central tendency and the dispersion. We approach, also, the skewness and kurtosis of the financial variables.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• English Title: Descriptive statistics of the financial time series
• Language: Romanian
• Keywords: Financial Variables, Central Tendency, Dispersion, Skewness, Kurtosis
• Subjects: C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C1 - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General > C10 - General; G - Financial Economics > G1 - General Financial Markets > G10 - General; G - Financial Economics > G1 - General Financial Markets > G19 - Other

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