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Term | Definition |
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Stocks | A share of the value of a company, which can be bought, sold, or traded as an investment and which gives the investor small partial ownership of the company |
Bonds | A security in which the investor loans money to a company or government, which then pays regular interest to the bondholder and returns the principal on the bond's maturity date |
Center | Middle of the data, usually measured by median or the mean. |
Variation | How spread out the data is, can be measured by Range, IQR, and Standard Deviation. |
Mean | Finding an average by adding up all the numbers and dividing by how many numbers you added. |
Standard Deviation | Square root of the variation |
Normal Distribution Curve | The top of the curve shows the mean of the data collected. Its standard deviation depicts the bell curve's relative width around the mean. |
Diversification | Owning a collection of investments such as stocks from different industries and small and large companies, bonds, and money market funds for cash, in order to spread risk and have a safer investment overall. |
Histogram | visual way to display continuous frequency data using bars. |