1. The following are the daily stock prices of a company listed at the Nairobi Stock Exchange during the month of September 2017
2. i)

12,16,14,17,19,15,11,19,23,15,16,18,16,24,10,20,15,24,15,15,16

• Compute the sample mean, variance, skewness, excess kurtosis, and minimum and maximum of the daily simple returns

• X	(x-¯x)²	(x-¯x)ᶟ	(x-¯x)⁴
  12	21.78	-101.62	474.37
  16	0.44	-0.29	0.1936
  14	7.11	-18.96	50.55
  17	0.11	0.037	0.0121
  19	5.44	12.7	29.59
  15	2.78	-4.63	7.728
  11	32.11	-181.96	1031.05
  19	5.44	12.7	29.59
  23	40.11	254.04	1608.81
  15	2.78	-4.63	7.728
  16	0.44	-0.29	0.1936
  18	1.78	2.37	3.1684
  16	0.444	-0.29	0.1936
  24	53.78	394.37	2892.29
  10	44.44	-296.3	1974.91
  20	11.11	37.04	123.43
  15	2.78	-4.63	7.728
  24	53.78	394.37	2892.29
  15	2.78	-4.63	7.728
  15	2.78	-4.63	7.728
  16	0.44	-0.29	0.1936
  350	292.654	484.477	11149.4749

• ii)Compute the daily log returns ????????
• iii)Compute the sample mean, variance, skewness, excess kurtosis, and minimum and maximum of the daily log returns
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