In this course, you will learn about descriptive statistics such as central tendency, location, dispersion, and return distributions such as symmetry, skewness, and kurtosis.
- Difference between descriptive statistics and inferential statistics
- Difference between population and sample
- Types of measurement scales
- Parameter, sample statistic, and frequency distribution
- Constructing a histogram or frequency polygon
- Measures of central tendency
- Measures of dispersion
- Quartiles, quintiles, deciles, and percentiles
- Chebyshev’s inequality
- Coefficient of variation and Sharpe ratio
- Skewness and kurtosis