The Informational Content in Lepto-Variance and Its Relation to Higher Moments

Vassilis Polimenis

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Abstract: Lepto-regression is defined as the machine learning process of constructing a Regression Tree of a target feature on itself. It is a novel, model-free method potentially revealing information on important sample structure properties. But it is yet not clear what the informational content of lepto-variance is and how it is related to other well-known statistics of a sample. One significant finding is that 58% of the historical US stock return variability is 1-bit lepto-variance that can not be explained by any financial factor. The central question investigated in this paper is to use small normal N(0, 1) drawn samples to explore how the 1-bit sample lepto-variance and lepto-ratio relate to sample variance, skewness and excess kurtosis. Using a large sample simulation, the lepto ratio of a normal is found to converge to 36.3%. For smaller normally distributed simulated N(0, 1) samples, while lepto-variance itself is highly correlated to sample variance, lepto-variance as a fraction of total variance is highly correlated to excess kurtosis. Both lepto-variance and lepto-ratio are orthogonal to sample skew. Another finding is that while lepto-ratio is strongly correlated to lepto-variance it remains orthogonal to sample variance.

Date: 2026-09
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