Select an option above to see an explanation here.
A) Standard deviation measures the dispersion of data points, often used to quantify investment risk.
B) Variance is the square of the standard deviation, representing the average of the squared differences from the mean.
C) Covariance measures how two variables change together, often used to assess the relationship between the returns of two investments.
D) Correlation is a standardized measure of the strength and direction of the relationship between two variables, ranging from -1 (perfect negative correlation) to 1 (perfect positive correlation).