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Table 2 Summary statistics of the series

From: Asymmetric evidence of foreign direct investment response to stock returns in Nigeria

Statistics

LNFDI

LNGDP

LNEXR

Stock returns

Positive stock returns

Negative stock returns

Mean

7.68

29.60

3.81

1.48

5.32

3.28

Median

7.67

29.74

4.72

1.60

6.32

0.00

Maximum

9.12

32.44

5.74

33.00

11.08

11.05

Minimum

5.09

25.92

− 0.17

− 36.58

0.00

0.00

Std. dev

0.95

2.07

1.53

6.12

4.27

4.54

Skewness

− 0.51

− 0.34

− 0.89

− 0.55

− 0.23

0.72

Kurtosis

2.97

1.80

2.81

10.10

1.39

1.61

Jarque–Bera

17.33

31.23

53.01

850.57

46.15

66.07

Probability

0.00***

0.00***

0.00***

0.00***

0.00***

0.00***

Sum

3032.95

11,693.41

1506.45

583.95

2102.16

1295.34

Sum Sq. dev

354.05

1683.45

918.32

14,746.35

7173.54

8119.01

Observations

395

395

395

395

395

395

  1. Source: Author’s computation from the underlying data
  2. ***Denotes 1% probability value