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Finance Application: Portfolio Analysis with a Market Index as a Leading Indicator in Simple Linear Regression

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Simple linear regression of stock rates of return with a Market index provides an estimate of beta, a measure of risk, which is central to finance investment theory.

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Fraser, C. (2019). Finance Application: Portfolio Analysis with a Market Index as a Leading Indicator in Simple Linear Regression. In: Business Statistics for Competitive Advantage with Excel 2019 and JMP. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20374-0_6

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