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Oesterreichische Nationalbank - Dictionary
Category: Economy and Finance
Date & country: 04/10/2008, AU
Words: 3913
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P-E ratioP/E is shorthand for the ratio of a company`s share price to its per-share earnings. For example, a P/E ratio of 10 means that the company has $1 of annual, per-share earnings for every $10 in share price. Earnings by definition are after all taxes etc....
R squareA measure of goodness of fit in least-squares regression analysis. It is the percentage of the variation in the dependent variable that is explained by variation in the independent variable....
R squareCox and Snell`s R-Square is an attempt to imitate the interpretation of multiple R-Square based on the likelihood, but its maximum can be (and usually is) less than 1.0, making it difficult to interpret. It is part of SPSS output in the `Model Summary` table. Nagelkerke`s R-Square is a further modification of the Cox and Snell coefficient to assure...
R squareSquare of the correlation coefficient. The proportion of the variability in one series that can be explained by the variability of one or more other series a regression model. A measure of the quality of fit. 100% R-square means perfect predictability....
R&D intensitydefined as R&D expenditure divided by sales revenue...
S&L crisiscrisis in the U.S. banking system during the 1980s following the deregulation in the S&L industry; info under http://www.fdic.gov/bank/historical/s&l/...
S.W.I.F.T.A message writing system that connects worldwide participating banks primarily for the purpose of communicating payment information. Frequently, the SWIFT message is only part of an international payment process which might also employ a system such as CHIPS to fully implement the transaction....
S.W.I.F.T.Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication: a cooperative organisation created and owned by banks that operates a network which facilitates the exchange of payment and other financial messages between financial institutions (including broker-dealers and securities companies) throughout the world. A S.W.I.F.T. payment message is an ...
S.W.I.F.T.SWIFT is the industry-owned co-operative supplying secure global messaging services and interface software to close to 7,000 financial institutions in more than 190 countries. swift...
t distributionThe t distribution is used instead of the normal distribution whenever the standard deviation is estimated. The t distribution has relatively more scores in its tails than does the normal distribution. It is therefore leptokurtic. The shape of the t distribution depends on the degrees of freedom (df) that went into the estimate of the standard devi...
t-testA t-test is any of a number of tests based on the t distribution. The most common t-test is a test for a difference between two means....
t-testAmong the most frequently used t tests are: 1) A test of the null hypothesis that the means of two normally distributed populations are equal. Given two data sets, each characterized by its mean, standard deviation and number of data points, we can use some kind of t test to determine whether the means are distinct, provided that the underlying dis...
T-TT facultyTenure-Track Faculty refers to members of the faculty who either are already tenured or moving through their probationary process to become tenured....
