Discover how probability distribution methods can help predict stock market returns and improve investment decisions. Learn ...

Forecasting for any small business involves guesswork. You know your business and its past performance, but you may not be comfortable predicting the future. Using Excel is a great way to perform what ...

Kristina Zucchi is an investment analyst and financial writer with 15+ years of experience managing portfolios and conducting equity research. Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical ...

This column is the fourth in a series on parameter estimation, leading up to the justly famous Kalman filter. The discipline is based on the fact that our knowledge of the state of any real-world ...

Everyone agrees the normal distribution isn't a great statistical model for stock market returns, but no generally accepted alternative has emerged. A bottom-up simulation points to the Laplace ...

The market demand curve and the normal curve are different in several different ways. The shape of the demand curve, its purpose and the function that defines it are all different from that of the ...