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Sunday, May 02, 2010

α

ALPHA: population linear projection ceofficient - probability of a Type I error

β

BETA: population regression coefficient - in the CAPM, the correlation between the expected return of a stock or portfolio and the return of the market as a whole - probability of a Type II error

γ

GAMMA: autocovariance matrix for vector process - autocovariance for scalar process - the rate of change in the delta

δ

DELTA: change in value of variable - coefficient on time trend - the sensitivity to changes in the price of the underlying asset

ε

EPSILON: a white noise variable

ζ

ZETA: constant term in ARCH specification

η

ETA: AR (∞) coefficient

θ

THETA: matrix of MA coefficient - scalar MA (q) coefficient - sensitivity to the passage of time

κ

KAPPA: kernel

λ

LAMBDA: matrix of eigenvalues - Lagrange multiplier - the percentage change in option value per change in the underlying price

μ

MU: population mean

ν

NU: degrees of freedom

ξ

XI: matrix of derivatives

π

PI: product - the number 3.14159...

ρ

RHO: autocorrelation - autoregressive coefficient - sensitivity to the applicable interest rate

σ

SIGMA: summation - long-run variance-covariance matrix - population standard deviation

τ

TAU: time index

υ

UPSILON: scaling matrix to calculate asymptotic distributions

φ

PHI: matrix of autoregressive coefficients - scalar autoregressive coefficient

χ

CHI: a variable with a chi-square distribution

ψ

PSI: matrix of MA coefficient for vector MA (∞) process - moving average coefficient for scalar MA (∞) process

ω

OMEGA: variance-covariance matrix - frequency

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