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- From: kevinc@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca (Kevin Crocker)
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Subject: Re: Question: Is the market predictable?
- Message-ID: <kevinc.727591287@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 04:41:27 GMT
- References: <1jb4eeINNqmc@lynx.unm.edu> <sehari.727301537@vincent2.iastate.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.athabascau.ca
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- sehari@iastate.edu (Babak Sehari) writes:
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- >Therefore, to predict the market with %100 accuracy you need infinite number
- >of variables. Nevertheless, with limited # of variable to consider, one should
- >be able to predict the market with accuracy of more than %50 and less than
- >%100.
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- You don't need to be 100% accurate to predict possible outcomes of a
- random event. Isn't this wat major portions of statistics provides - a
- methodology for testing "best-fit" (not necessarily LS etc) predictors.
-
- KEvin
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- Kevin "autark" Crocker (Athabasca University)
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