Statistical tests based on calculating the probability that a given result could have been obtained as the result of sampling errors. An estimate, for example, is statistically significantly different from zero at the 5 per cent level if, given the variance of the population, there is a less than 5 per cent chance that an estimate as far from zero as this could have been produced by a random sample of the size used.

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• Financial Intermediaries, Managers and Brokers Regulatory Association
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• firm
• firm-specific human capital
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• first derivative
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