On a given trading day, a financial economist randomly examines the stock prices of 500 companies and
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On a given trading day, a financial economist randomly examines the stock prices of 500 companies and discovers that 205 went up and 295 went down.
On this evidence, can he argue that more than 50 % of all the stocks went down in price? Do a 10 % level of significance test.
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Statistics For Business And Financial Economics
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