medium · FRM Part 1

A portfolio manager wants to estimate the mean alpha of a strategy.

With a sample of n observations and an estimated sample standard deviation s, what is the effect of quadrupling the sample size on the width of the 95% confidence interval, assuming s remains constant and n is large?

  1. The width of the interval will remain unchanged if the variance is constant.
  2. The width of the interval will be reduced by half.
  3. The width of the interval will double.
  4. The width of the interval will be reduced by three-quarters.

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