Hi,
I don’t understand the explanation given in the CFA Institute book. I wonder if someone can help solving this problem please?
An exchange rate has a given expected future value and standard deviation.
A. Assuming that the exchange rate is normally distributed, what are the probabilities that the exchange rate will be at least 2 or 3 standard deviations away from its mean?
B. Assume that you do not know the distribution of exchange rates. Use Chebyshev’s inequality (that at least 1 − 1/k2 proportion of the observations will be within k standard deviations of the mean for any positive integer k greater than 1) to calculate the maximum probabilities that the exchange rate will be at least 2 or 3 standard deviations away from its mean.
(Institute 597)
Institute, CFA. 2016 CFA Level I Volume 1 Ethical and Professional Standards and Quantitative Methods. CFA Institute, 07/2015. VitalBook file.