standard deviation
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Others criticized Cliffwater’s marketing, especially when it boasted of hedge-fund-like returns with minimal risks, citing industry metrics like Sharpe ratios and standard deviation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 1, 2026
Even accounting for a step-change in inflation-adjusted stock market trends following the Great Depression in the 1930s, real U.S. equity prices are still elevated and more than 1 standard deviation above trend, Colmar notes.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 10, 2025
"Our study proposed a simple yet objective method for determining hotspots using standard deviation values. This is the first time that this has been done."
From Science Daily • Apr. 10, 2024
New York provides a range of standard deviation, specifying a 68% probability that the GDP figure will fall between 1.07% and 3.99%.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 10, 2023
No other breed falls outside the standard deviation.
From "The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl" by Stacy McAnulty
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
