Essay
The monthly adjusted (for dividends and splits) closing stock prices (rounded to the nearest dollar) for Gladstone Commercial Corp. and Kimco Realty Corp. for the last six months of 2010 are reported in the table below a. State the null and the alternative hypotheses to determine if the variance of price differs for the two firms.
B) What assumption regarding the population is necessary to implement this step?
C) Use Excel's F.TEST function to calculate the p-value.
D) At α = 0.05 what is your conclusion?
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a. Η0:
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= 1, ΗA:
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