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Business Definition for: Beta Coefficient
- an indication of the level of risk attached to a stock. A high beta coefficient indicates that a stock is likely to be more sensitive to market movements.
Additional Resources
- General Mills: A Defensive Stock in Turbulent Times
- Ockham Research submits: Volatility makes a lot of people nervous, especially when the stock market is headed in the wrong direction. With the impending vote in Congress for the rescue package, financial markets may swing wildly as the legislative wheels grind forward. Instead of touting stocks that may benefit...
- External links 2008-10-03
- Three Validation Metrics for Automated Probabilistic Image Segmentation of Brain Tumors
- The validity of brain tumor segmentation is an important issue in image processing because it has a direct impact on surgical planning. This paper examines the segmentation accuracy based on three two sample validation metrics against the estimated composite latent gold standard, which was derived from several experts' manual segmentations...
- White papers 2004-03-23
- EmiT EXPERIMENT IMPROVES LIMIT ON TIME-REVERSAL VIOLATION - Brief Article
- A collaboration between NIST researchers and researchers from six other institutions performed an experiment that improved the limit on the time reversal violating coefficient "D" in neutron beta-decay. The Standard Model of particle physics permits only a very small prediction for a time-reversal violating effect, and the existence of an...
- Research articles 2000-11-01
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