Re: Implied Volatility!

2000-12-13 Thread David Rothman
google altavista yahoo excite take your pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 918nmm$8j2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:918nmm$8j2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Hi, > > Could anybody explain "Implied Volatility" of a call or put Option? > If we had to plot "implied volatility" versus Strike price, how wo

Re: Florida votes and statistical errors

2000-11-30 Thread David Rothman
simply put, the problem is that the original census is not pristine - not unaltered. it is not simply a matter of separating clearly marked red cards from clearly marked black cards. therefore, tho it is theoretically possible to count well marked objects with close to zero sampling error, the b

Re: What are the differences between Statistics and Econometric?

2000-09-16 Thread David Rothman
i've always had a problem with that (and similar) definitions of econometrics. i prefer to think of it as follows... statisticians often look at data and try to draw conclusions solely from that data. econometricians tends to start from an economic hypothesis and then analyze (statistically) an