Business and Personal Finance Dictionary

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• MEAN-VARIANCE ANALYSIS - Evaluation of risky prospects based on the expected value and variance of poss...
  
  
• MEAN-VARIANCE CRITERION - The selection of portfolios based on the means and variances of their returns...
  
  
• MEAN-VARIANCE EFFICIENT PORTFOLIO - Related: Markowitz efficient portfolio
  
  
• MEANDER LINES - A vivid description of the measurement used in surveying to set out the boundary of a w...
  
  
• MEASURE - A function that maps a set into the positive portion of the real line. Examples: 1. Length ...
  
  
• MEASUREMENT ERROR - Errors in measuring an explanatory variable in a regression, which leads to biases ...
  
  
• MEASUREMENT NOISE - See: Observational Noise.
  
  
• MEASUREMENT THEORY - involves the assignment of numerals to objects or events in order to represent cer...
  
  
• MECHANIC'S AND MATERIALMAN'S LIENS - A claim against property that arises as a statutory right of any p...
  
  
• MECHANIC'S LIEN - a legal, enforceable claim for payment to a person who has performed work or supplied...