My post has all the links you need to understand it, really just the Wikipedia definitions of Sharpe Ratio and various test statistics like the standard score. Would you feel better about the post if Lumifer just talked about math and not about me being "very confused" and "misinformed"?
When a commenter on my blog actually catches a mistake in the math, I not only fix it immediately, I pay them $5 for the trouble.
My post has all the links you need to understand it, really just the Wikipedia definitions of Sharpe Ratio and various test statistics like the standard score.
I spent three hours studying all the various concepts, and I've reached the conclusion that there's a bit of confusion everywhere, due to nobody defining their terms.
Wikipedia gives four different definitions of the Sharpe ratio, the original/revised vs. ex-ante/ex-post. Plus, they are defined using momenta of a distribution, but for the examples where it's used the sample means and sample standar...