AdvancedMultiple choice
You compute twelve-month returns every month over ten years and test whether their mean is non-zero. What is wrong?
- ANothing – 120 observations is a perfectly reasonable sample
- BThe observations overlap, so the standard error is too small
- CTwelve-month returns are not normally distributed at all
- DTen years is too short a period for any such test
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