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  2. Uncertainty - Wikipedia

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    In that case, the quoted standard errors are easily converted to 68.3% ("one sigma"), 95.4% ("two sigma"), or 99.7% ("three sigma") confidence intervals. [citation needed] In this context, uncertainty depends on both the accuracy and precision of the measurement instrument. The lower the accuracy and precision of an instrument, the larger the ...

  3. Convergence (economics) - Wikipedia

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    t. e. The idea of convergence in economics (also sometimes known as the catch-up effect) is the hypothesis that poorer economies ' per capita incomes will tend to grow at faster rates than richer economies. In the Solow-Swan model, economic growth is driven by the accumulation of physical capital until this optimum level of capital per worker ...

  4. Two Sigma - Wikipedia

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    Two Sigma Investments was founded in 2001 by John Overdeck, David Siegel and Mark Pickard. [2] [5] Siegel is a computer science Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who worked for Tudor Investments, and Overdeck is an International Mathematical Olympiad Silver Medalist who subsequently studied mathematics at Stanford University and worked for Jeff Bezos in Amazon.com's early ...

  5. Elasticity of intertemporal substitution - Wikipedia

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    In economics, elasticity of intertemporal substitution (or intertemporal elasticity of substitution, EIS, IES) is a measure of responsiveness of the growth rate of consumption to the real interest rate. [1] If the real interest rate rises, current consumption may decrease due to increased return on savings; but current consumption may also ...

  6. Sigma - Wikipedia

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    Sigma's original name may have been san, but due to the complicated early history of the Greek epichoric alphabets, san came to be identified as a separate letter in the Greek alphabet, represented as ΟΊ. [2] Herodotus reports that "san" was the name given by the Dorians to the same letter called "sigma" by the Ionians. [i] [3]

  7. Risk aversion - Wikipedia

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    Right graph: With fixed probabilities of two alternative states 1 and 2, risk averse indifference curves over pairs of state-contingent outcomes are convex. In economics and finance , risk aversion is the tendency of people to prefer outcomes with low uncertainty to those outcomes with high uncertainty, even if the average outcome of the latter ...

  8. Coefficient of variation - Wikipedia

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    The coefficient of variation (CV) is defined as the ratio of the standard deviation to the mean , [1] It shows the extent of variability in relation to the mean of the population. The coefficient of variation should be computed only for data measured on scales that have a meaningful zero (ratio scale) and hence allow relative comparison of two ...

  9. Percentile - Wikipedia

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    Percentile. Statistic which divides a data set into 100 parts and analyzes it as a percentage. In statistics, a k-th percentile, also known as percentile score or centile, is a score below which a given percentage k of scores in its frequency distribution falls (" exclusive " definition) or a score at or below which a given percentage falls ...