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The Effects of Sample Sizes on the Accuracy of EV and SSD Efficiency Criteria

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2009

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Preference orderings of uncertain prospects have progressed from the two-moment EV model first developed by Markowitz [1952] to the more general efficiency analysis that is based on the entire probability function. This general efficiency approach, referred to as the Stochastic Dominance (SD) approach, does not depend on specific assumptions about the investor's utility function and has been shown to be theoretically superior to the “moment methods” [1].

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Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 1975

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