Over the past five years, a stock returned 5.31 percent, 0.81 percent, 29.59 percent, 3.63 percent, and 16.15 percent, respectively. What is the variance (as a decimal fraction) of these returns?
Carry intermediate calculations to six decimals. Answer to four decimals. Your answer should look something like 0.0123, or 0.0024
Variance = 0.0562592
Year | Return (X) | X-Mean | (X-Mean)^2 |
1 | 0.0531 | -0.05788 | 0.0033501 |
2 | 0.0081 | -0.10288 | 0.0105843 |
3 | 0.2959 | 0.18492 | 0.0341954 |
4 | 0.0363 | -0.07468 | 0.0055771 |
5 | 0.1615 | 0.05052 | 0.0025523 |
Mean (Average of Return (X) | 0.11098 | Variance (Total of (X-Mean)^2) | 0.0562592 |
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