Part III
Statistical and Financial Calculations
10 Statistics
10.1 Prepare the statistical bank
10.2 Enter observations in the right order
10.3 What the six accumulators retain
10.4 Correct or remove an observation
10.5 Means and weighted means
10.6 Sample standard deviations
10.7 Fit a straight line
10.8 Estimate a response and read correlation
10.9 Inspect the totals and preserve useful results
10.10 Statistics worksheets in ALG
10.11 Stack effects, errors, and numerical limits
11 Time Value of Money, Loans, and Savings
11.1 The five financial registers
11.2 Cash signs, periods, and interest rates
11.3 END and BEGIN payment timing
11.4 When an RPN financial key stores and when it solves
11.5 Clearing and preparing a financial problem
11.6 Loan payments and a final balloon
11.7 Present value and a payment budget
11.8 Future value and regular savings
11.9 Solving for the periodic interest rate
11.10 Solving n and interpreting fractional periods
11.11 Amortization: interest, principal, and balance
11.12 TVM and amortization in ALG
11.13 Money rounding, precision, and practical limits
12 Cash Flows, NPV, and IRR
12.1 Amounts at equally spaced times
12.2 Controls and a known starting state
12.3 Entering individual and repeated flows
12.4 Reviewing and replacing stored amounts
12.5 Selecting the prefix with n
12.6 Net present value
12.7 Internal rate of return
12.8 Bounds, multiple roots, and unsuccessful searches
12.9 Cash-flow worksheets in ALG
12.10 Comparing amount and rate results
12.11 Clearing and numerical limits
13 Additional Financial and Date Calculations
13.1 Controls and preparation
13.2 Simple interest on 360- and 365-day bases
13.3 Entering and reading calendar dates
13.4 Adding or subtracting calendar days
13.5 Actual and 30/360 day counts
13.6 Bond inputs and coupon assumptions
13.7 Calculating bond price and yield
13.8 Preparing a depreciation calculation
13.9 Straight line and sum of years’ digits
13.10 Declining balance and straight-line crossover
13.11 Fractional useful lives and rounding
13.12 Financial and date worksheets in ALG
13.13 Retained inputs, results, and error recovery