(alsobeta factor);(alsobeta)FINANCE,STOCK MARKETameasurementof how much thevalueof aparticularsharehaschangedin aparticularperiodoftime,comparedto theaveragechangein thevalueofsharesin thestockmarketas awholeduring thatperiod:Standard and Poor'squotedthe company's betacoefficientas 1.45.Afundwith a high betacoefficientgivesgreaterreturnsin arisingmarket.(Definition ofbeta coefficientfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
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beta coefficientMore sophisticated forms of analysis (fundamental analysis, quantitative analysis and behavioral analysis) use also some market criteria, such as the risk premium orbetacoefficient.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thebetacoefficientis -.392 for community ethnic identification and .313 for prevalence of discrimination.From theCambridge English CorpusFurthermore, for consumption index and current contraceptive use thebetacoefficientis not significant.From theCambridge English CorpusThe existence of mechanisms that facilitated the transfer of new information into the public health unit had a standardizedbetacoefficientof .233.From theCambridge English CorpusHowever, thebetacoefficientof this variable for current contraceptive use is significant (0-09).From theCambridge English CorpusThebetacoefficientis the measure of relative importance of the variable in predicting the dependent variable.From theCambridge English CorpusThe logistic regression analysis yielded abetacoefficientestimate of 2.9575, z l 2.6627.From theCambridge English CorpusMaking decisions in collaboration with other community organizations significantly predicted the influence the reviews had on staff development decisions and had a standardizedbetacoefficientof .363.From theCambridge English CorpusConsistent with the premise that employees will be averse to holding stocks with a high risk and return, employer stock holdings also decline with the stock'sbetacoefficient.From theCambridge English CorpusThebetacoefficientof number of children ever born on the consumption index (0-09) is significant but it is the smallest of the significant beta coefficients in the analysis.From theCambridge English CorpusThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/beta-coefficient##
