Not exact matches
What is more interesting is that the
reversion happens a
little faster, at a rate of 28.2 % / month, which
means absent other disturbances, it closes half of the gap
to the
mean reversion target over 44 days.
It demonstrates that variance ratios are among the most powerful tests for detecting
mean reversion in stock prices, but that they have
little power against the principal interesting alternatives
to the random walk hypothesis.
So if you are looking at something like professional swimming and recording the lap time for Michael Phelps, it won't be a revelation that the outcome (lap timings) stays pretty much consistent with very
little scope for
reversion to the
mean.
There goes that
little Einstein by the name of Kim, who can't figure out that the sun goes through the same
reversion -
to - the -
mean fluctuations as the earth.