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- From: rhh@alice.att.com (r hardin)
- Newsgroups: sci.math.stat
- Subject: Re: Use of Statistical Techniques in Stock Selection
- Message-ID: <23881@alice.att.com>
- Date: 13 Oct 92 23:47:23 GMT
- Article-I.D.: alice.23881
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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- m.ramesh writes:
- >Has anyone ever used statistical analysis such as regression, correlation,
- >forecasting, ectc on stock for investment puposes. Is there any book which
- >talks about this.
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- People used to find cycles by weighting price histories with secret
- weights, I think in the '50s. Somebody spoiled a lot of the fun
- by analyzing the spectrum of the weighting functions.
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- ``A Random Walk Down Wall Street'' is still a the best book, if you're
- inclined to think statistical techniques might help. It ought to
- dissuade you.
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