CFA Practice Question
The scale-free measure of relative dispersion that is useful in making direct comparisons among different asset classes is the ______.
A. variation
B. standard deviation
C. coefficient of variation
Explanation: The coefficient of variation is the ratio of the standard deviation of a set of observations to their mean value. This scale-free measure permits direct comparisons of dispersion across different data sets.
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