A financial analyst maintains that the risk, measured by the variance, of investing in emerging markets is more than 280( )2 Data on 20 stocks from emerging markets revealed the following sample results 12 1( ) and s2 361( )2 Assume that the returns are normally distributed a Specify the competing ...

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A financial analyst maintains that the risk, measured by the variance, of investing in emerging markets is

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A financial analyst maintains that the risk, measured by the variance, of investing in emerging markets is more than 280(%)2. Data on 20 from emerging markets revealed the following sample results:
= 12.1(%) and s2 = 361(%)2.
Assume that the returns are normally distributed.
a. Specify the competing hypotheses to test the analyst's claim.
b. At α = 0.01, specify the critical value(s).
c. What is the value of the test statistic?
d. Is the financial analyst's claim supported by the data?
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