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Table 1 Descriptive Statistics for Developed Markets

From: Evaluation of forecasting methods from selected stock market returns

Country

Mean

Standard Deviation

Skewness

Kurtosis

Jarque–Bera Statistic

Tsay Test

Australia

0.016900

0.981318

− 0.366178

8.451780

5732.678

(0.00000)

Nonlinear

Canada

0.016719

1.043102

−0.466783

13.58932

21,277.95

(0.00000)

Nonlinear

France

0.005790

1.429676

0.141474

8.712746

6275.928

(0.00000)

Nonlinear

Germany

0.021703

1.475373

0.097060

8.111260

4987.257

(0.00000)

Nonlinear

Japan

0.019562

1.501151

−0.211389

9.413287

7642.163

(0.00000)

Nonlinear

Korea

0.040316

1.384506

−0.350392

9.724636

8473.831

(0.00000)

Nonlinear

Switzerland

0.007731

1.174780

−0.012284

10.18851

9766.624

(0.00000)

Nonlinear

UK

0.009243

1.171826

−0.004334

9.918071

9061.453

(0.00000)

Nonlinear

US

0.020694

1.147998

−0.089045

12.10219

15,630.08

(0.00000)

Nonlinear