AdvancedMultiple choice
You test whether a signal predicts next-day returns by shuffling the signal across days many times and recomputing the correlation. What assumption makes this permutation test valid?
- AThat returns are normally distributed
- BThat under the null the pairings are exchangeable
- CThat the signal and returns have the same variance
- DThat the sample is large enough for the central limit theorem to apply
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