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  2. Positive and negative predictive values - Wikipedia

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    The positive predictive value (PPV), or precision, is defined as = + = where a "true positive" is the event that the test makes a positive prediction, and the subject has a positive result under the gold standard, and a "false positive" is the event that the test makes a positive prediction, and the subject has a negative result under the gold standard.

  3. Time-weighted return - Wikipedia

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    The time-weighted return is a measure of the historical performance of an investment portfolio which compensates for external flows.External flows refer to the net movements of value into or out of a portfolio, stemming from transfers of cash, securities, or other financial instruments.

  4. Prediction interval - Wikipedia

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    Given a sample from a normal distribution, whose parameters are unknown, it is possible to give prediction intervals in the frequentist sense, i.e., an interval [a, b] based on statistics of the sample such that on repeated experiments, X n+1 falls in the interval the desired percentage of the time; one may call these "predictive confidence intervals".

  5. Discounting - Wikipedia

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    This fact is directly tied into the time value of money and its calculations. [1] The present value of $1,000, 100 years into the future. Curves representing constant discount rates of 2%, 3%, 5%, and 7%. The "time value of money" indicates there is a difference between the "future value" of a payment and the "present value" of the same payment.

  6. Option time value - Wikipedia

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    Time value is, as above, the difference between option value and intrinsic value, i.e. Time Value = Option Value − Intrinsic Value. More specifically, TV reflects the probability that the option will gain in IV — become (more) profitable to exercise before it expires. [6] An important factor is the underlying instrument's volatility ...

  7. Value at risk - Wikipedia

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    The 5% Value at Risk of a hypothetical profit-and-loss probability density function. Value at risk (VaR) is a measure of the risk of loss of investment/Capital.It estimates how much a set of investments might lose (with a given probability), given normal market conditions, in a set time period such as a day.

  8. Stock valuation - Wikipedia

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    Stock valuation is the method of calculating theoretical values of companies and their stocks.The main use of these methods is to predict future market prices, or more generally, potential market prices, and thus to profit from price movement – stocks that are judged undervalued (with respect to their theoretical value) are bought, while stocks that are judged overvalued are sold, in the ...

  9. Credit valuation adjustment - Wikipedia

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    where is the maturity of the longest transaction in the portfolio, is the future value of one unit of the base currency invested today at the prevailing interest rate for maturity , is the loss given default, is the time of default, () is the exposure at time , and (,) is the risk neutral probability of counterparty default between times and .