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  2. The Fat Tail - Wikipedia

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    The "fat tails" indicate a probability, which may be larger than otherwise anticipated, that an investment will move beyond three standard deviations. A fat tail occurs when there is an unexpectedly thick end or “tail” toward the edges of a distribution curve, indicating an irregularly high likelihood of catastrophic events. This fat tail ...

  3. Fat-tailed distribution - Wikipedia

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    The most extreme case of a fat tail is given by a distribution whose tail decays like a power law. A variety of Cauchy distributions for various location and scale parameters. Cauchy distributions are examples of fat-tailed distributions. That is, if the complementary cumulative distribution of a random variable X can be expressed as [citation ...

  4. Fat-tailed sheep - Wikipedia

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    Fat-tailed sheep at a livestock market in Kashgar, China. The fat-tailed sheep is a general type of domestic sheep known for their distinctive large tails and hindquarters. . Fat-tailed sheep breeds comprise approximately 25% of the world's sheep population, [1] and are commonly found in northern parts of Africa, the Middle East, and various Central Asian countries, Afghanistan, Pakistan and ...

  5. Kurtosis risk - Wikipedia

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    The "fat tail" metaphor explicitly describes the situation of having more observations at either extreme than the tails of the normal distribution would suggest; therefore, the tails are "fatter". Ignoring kurtosis risk will cause any model to understate the risk of variables with high kurtosis.

  6. Talk:Fat-tailed distribution - Wikipedia

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    Fat tail and Heavy Tail are the same concept, however Heavy Tail is more politically correct. No, Fat tail and Heavy tail are not the same concept. A Heavy tail is a distribution with a tail that is heavier than an Exponential. Examples of Heavy tails: LogNormal, Weibull, Zipf, Cauchy, Student’s t, Frechet, Pareto, etc.

  7. A New Account of the Tales of the World - Wikipedia

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    A New Account of the Tales of the World, also known as Shishuo Xinyu (Chinese: 世說新語 [1]), was compiled and edited by Liu Yiqing (Liu I-ching; Chinese: 劉義慶; 403 – 26 February 444 [2]) during the Liu Song dynasty (420–479) of the Northern and Southern dynasties (420–589). It is a historical compilation of anecdotes about ...

  8. 'Rotten-tail kids': China's rising youth unemployment breeds ...

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    After spending years climbing China's ultra-competitive academic ladder, "rotten-tail kids" are discovering that their qualifications are failing to secure them jobs in a bleak economy. Their ...

  9. The Penguin History of Modern China - Wikipedia

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    1850 is the book's starting point for China's contemporary history. [3] Starting in chapter six, the book reviews China's turbulent 20th century. [8] The book discusses Empress Dowager Cixi. [4] Fenby chronicles the Qing government's insufficient reaction to local and global catastrophes led to the 1911 Revolution.