Successful investing requires the ability to distinguish long-term trends from the short-term noise that moves stock prices on a minute-to-minute basis. One way to tune out the random oscillations and ...

Leslie Kramer is a writer for Institutional Investor, correspondent for CNBC, journalist for Investopedia, and managing editor for Markets Group. Correlation measures the linear relationship between ...

Investopedia contributors come from a range of backgrounds, and over 25 years there have been thousands of expert writers and editors who have contributed. Thomas J Catalano is a CFP and Registered ...

Microsoft Excel 2010 comes with an expansion pack called the Analysis ToolPak that includes a number of analylitical tools, like the ability to create a liner regression table. Even though the ToolPak ...

Regression imputation is commonly used to compensate for item nonresponse when auxiliary data are available. It is common practice to compute survey estimators by treating imputed values as observed ...

Approximations are found to the joint distributions of noncircular and circular partial serial correlation coefficients calculated from residuals from regression on Fourier series. Results for ...