Chris Gallant, CFA, is a senior manager of interest rate risk for ATB Financial with 10 years of experience in the financial markets. Vikki Velasquez is a researcher and writer who has managed, ...

This is my second blog on mean, mode and median in just a week – surely that’s far from average. However, I’ve just been reading about the differences between the arithmetic mean and the geometric ...

In the investment world, it’s common to discuss average rates of return. It’s not sufficient, however, to simply add up historical returns and divide by how many there are. The proper way to calculate ...

Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial consultant, Certified Financial Education Instructor, and researcher who has assisted thousands of clients over a more than two-decade career. She is the CEO of ...

The formula of Mean: In statistics, "mean" is a measure of central tendency, calculated by summing up all the values in a dataset and dividing by the number of data points. The single numerical value ...

The simplest way to find the average (mean) of a set of numbers is to use the AVERAGE function. This calculation gives you the arithmetic mean, which sums up all the numbers and divides the result by ...