Visit Professor Kenneth French's data library website: mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/ pages/faculty/ken.french/data_library.html and download the monthly returns of 6 portfolios

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Visit Professor Kenneth French's data library website: mba.tuck.dartmouth.edu/ pages/faculty/ken.french/data_library.html and download the monthly returns of "6 portfolios formed on size and book-to-market (2 × 3)." Choose the value-weighted series for the period from 1/1928-12/2012 (1,020 months). Split the sample in half and compute the average, SD, skew, and kurtosis for each of the six portfolios for the two halves. Do the six split-halves statistics suggest to you that returns come from the same over the entire period?
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