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When it comes to how we think about the markets (and beyond), we must also think about the assumptions we’re making. Indeed, poor outcomes often result from misguided assumptions, sometimes adopted ...

Normality testing is a fundamental component in statistical analysis, central to validating many inferential techniques that presume Gaussian behaviour of error terms ...

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