1.2 Notes: Data-driven models and managerial decisions: Assumptions
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With statistical models, you often make distributional assumptions, i.e. assume a particular variable follows a particular probability distribution.
normal distribution, the familiar bell-shaped curve
The assumption that market returns follow a normal distribution is fundamental to many models in finance. However, this assumption does not typically reflect actual observed market returns and “tail events”
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