US EditionWhen It Comes to Finance, 'Normal' Data Is Actually Pretty Weird
UNITED STATES, AUG 5 – Analysis shows financial data from about 1,000 U.S. firms often exhibits extreme outliers and right-skewed patterns, challenging the assumption of normal distribution in research.
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When it comes to finance, 'normal' data is actually pretty weird
When business researchers analyze data, they often rely on assumptions to help make sense of what they find. But like anyone else, they can run into a whole lot of trouble if those assumptions turn out to be wrong—which may happen more often than they realize. That's what we found in a recent study looking at financial data from about a thousand major U.S. companies.
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Idaho PressWhen it comes to finance, ‘normal’ data is actually pretty weird
When business researchers analyze data, they often rely on assumptions to help make sense of what they find. But like anyone else, they can run into a whole lot of trouble if those assumptions turn out to be wrong – which may happen more often than they realize. That’s what we found in a recent study looking at financial data from about a thousand major U.S. companies. One of the most common assumptions in data analysis is that the numbers will …
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