Sharpe ratio

measure of an investment's risk premium
CreativeWork financial_measure Q1501898
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Sharpe ratio

Summary

Sharpe ratio is a financial measure[1]. It ranks in the top 8% of financial_measure entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (589 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Sharpe ratio's instance of is recorded as financial measure[3].
  • William F. Sharpe is named after Sharpe ratio[4].
  • Sharpe ratio's subclass of is recorded as ratio[5].
  • Sharpe ratio's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/03rf67[6].
  • Sharpe ratio's defining formula is recorded as S_a = \frac{E[R_a-R_b]}{\sigma_a} = \frac{E[R_a-R_b]}{\sqrt{\mathrm{var}[R_a-R_b]}}[7].
  • Sharpe ratio's MathWorld ID is recorded as SharpeRatio[8].
  • Sharpe ratio's Quora topic ID is recorded as Sharpe-Ratio[9].
  • Sharpe ratio's STW Thesaurus for Economics ID is recorded as 30517-1[10].
  • Sharpe ratio's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[11].
  • Sharpe ratio's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 139938925[12].
  • Sharpe ratio's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C139938925[13].

Why It Matters

Sharpe ratio ranks in the top 8% of financial_measure entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (589 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 18 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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