Re: Mean and covariance matrix
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- Subject: [mg82512] Re: Mean and covariance matrix
- From: antononcube <antononcube at gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 05:28:55 -0400 (EDT)
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How does your code look like? If something like this:
In[24]:= GEData = FinancialData["GE", "Return", {{2000, 1, 1}, {2007,
10, 17}}];
In[25]:= GEReturns = #[[2]] & /@ GEData;
In[26]:= VectorQ[GEReturns, NumberQ]
Out[26]= True
In[27]:= Mean[GEReturns]
Out[27]= -0.000186615
, then the result of Mean is expected.
Anton Antonov,
Wolfram Research, Inc.
On Oct 20, 5:18 am, KTugb... at gmail.com wrote:
> Using FinancialData[],
>
> 1.Download the price data of GE needed to compute daily returns for
> any trading days from {2000, 1, 1} to {2007, 10, 17}, inclusive, and
> then compute the daily returns.
>
> 2.Using the return data compute a raw mean vector and covariance
> matrix.
>
> I was able to do part 1,but i am not too sure if I did question 2
> correctly.
>
> For the mean,I said
>
> Mean[GEData], and I got a number instead of a vector. I did the same
> for the Covariance, and I got a single number instead of a vector. Can
> someone please tell me if I am not doing it the right way?