Variability in returns is undesirable only if it decreases the investor's terminal wealth or utility.
For those trying to maximize terminal wealth, or the geometric mean return, stocks with …

… , number of records (N) and standard deviation (SD) for DYD of the trait are given. … genotypes,
effect of alleles and genotypes, standard deviation (SD) of effect and time period (TP) are …

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a long-standing dislike of extensive summaries of the literature. Lively and succinct …

… Continuous data were presented as means with standard deviations (SD) and analyzed
using Student’s t-test. Categorical variables were analyzed using Chi-squared or Fisher’s exact …

… sum of two contributions, the diffusion thermopower, Sd, which is associated with the system
of … of low temperature, T, that Sd should depend linearly on T and Sg should be proportional …

Background: Substance abuse and mental disorder comorbidity is high among patients
admitted to acute psychiatric wards. The aim of the study was to identify this co-occurrence as a …

… The mean (standard deviation, SD) age at enrolment was 58.4 (6.2) years. The participants
… The mean (SD) predicted concentration of summed PCBs in group 1, was 137.9 (50.1) ng/g, …

… descriptive analysis I measured through SPSS means, standard deviations, min, max and
intercorrelations for all the variables I used in this study, excluding gender from means and SD…

This study aimed to identify the research priorities of clinical nurses to develop a research
program at a health care services system that includes three hospitals. A Delphi survey was …

… Data were described by proportions (%), by median, quartiles (Q1, Q3) and range, or by
mean and standard deviation (SD) when appropriate. The 95 percentage confidence interval (CI…