An investigation into the normality of the distributions of financial ratios of listed South African industrial companies

In this article we examine some of the inter-temporal and cross-sectional distributional properties of a selected number of financial ratios of South African industrial companies and we evaluate the effect of a simple procedure of outlier rejection. The normality assumption is rejected consistently...

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Main Authors: A. C. Jordaan, E. V.D.M. Smit, W. D. Hamman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AOSIS 1994-06-01
Series:South African Journal of Business Management
Online Access:https://sajbm.org/index.php/sajbm/article/view/844