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Stats: R-squared

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

Stats: R-squared
Dear Professor Mean, On my TI-83, when calculating quadratic regression, there is a number that is found called R-squared (R^2). I understand that this is the coefficient of determination. But….I thought that R^2 had to do with linear models. What is R^2 finding for this quadratic regression? what does this number mean? is there […]

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Modern Portfolio Theory and other Risk Statistics

Tuesday, April 5th, 2005

Morningstar: Search Fund
Statistics Used in Manager/Advisor Analysis
Zephyr Resources - Math Corner
CoVariance Matrix
Covariance — from MathWorld

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