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tail risks

tail risks is the plural of tail risk.

Meaning of tail risk

Noun

tail risk (countable and uncountable, plural tail risks)

  1. The probability that the value of something will fall more than three standard deviations (-3σ) below the mean; an extreme risk.
    • The advantage of performing a simulation is that different tail risk measures can be computed from the simulated loss distribution.2004, Srichander Ramaswamy, Managing Credit Risk in Corporate Bond Portfolios, →ISBN, page 123
    Synonyms:
    fat tail risk

Questions about tail risks

What is tail risks the plural of?
Tail risks is the plural of tail risk.

Words near tail risks in the dictionary

  1. tail recursions
  2. tail recursive
  3. tail rhyme
  4. tail rhymes
  5. tail risk
  6. tail risks
  7. tail rotor
  8. tail rotors
  9. tail slate
  10. tail slates
  11. tail slide

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