by IanRayner | Jan 18, 2012 |
If you do anything that depends upon correlation, you owe it to yourself to be aware of outliers and how to deal with them. For example, a mean-variance optimized portfolio using Modern Portfolio Theory or the Black Litterman model is critically dependent upon, and... by IanRayner | Feb 27, 2011 |
I found it helpful to look at a variety of covariance ellipses for tame distributions so that I would have a better feel for those I come across in the wild. Following is a quick tour that I hope will show the effect of changing the parameters of the distributions of... by IanRayner | Feb 20, 2011 |
In my quest to understand correlation and covariance better, I took a short trip down the rabbit hole to visit eigen vectors and returned carrying a covariance ellipse. In my next post I will tie these concepts together when I re-visit the real-world issue of...