I have a statistical dilemma I would like to clarify and start working on—and perhaps even turn into an exam topic. My question is complex; I’ll try to provide the relevant information. I want to determine the probability that GRAB—currently trading at around $4—will reach a specific price point within 2 to 5 years, based on variables like the P/E ratio, revenue, and any other parameters you might suggest. 2021 Valuation: $40 billion Revenue: $675 million Transactions: $16 billion IPO Price: $13 (calculated based on EV/Sales) 2025/2026 Valuation: $15–16 billion Revenue: $24–25 billion Profit: $200 million P/E Ratio: 41–44x I’ve calculated the same figures for Microsoft, Facebook, and Uber. I’m not sure what other companies to compare them with or how to run a statistical test (e.g., which test to use). Microsoft and Facebook went public while already profitable, whereas Uber is the closest comparable case, despite the pandemic. MICROSOFT 1986 Revenue: $140 million Profit: $24.1 million P/E Ratio: 14–15x Share Price: $21 1991 Revenue: $1.84 billion Profit: $463 million Share Price: $409 FACEBOOK 2012 Revenue: $3.71 billion Profit: $1 billion P/E Ratio: 100x Share Price: $38 2017 Revenue: $40.65 billion Profit: $15.93 billion P/E Ratio: 32x Share Price: $152 UBER 2019 Valuation: $75.5 billion (loss-making) Profit: -$3.03 billion (excluding share divestments) Share Price: $45 ($15 during the pandemic) 2025 Revenue: $52.05 billion Profit +$10 billion Share price $70–$80 P/E ratio 17–19x Can you name specific companies or explain the starting point for a concrete statistical calculation regarding GRAB returning to $13—or reaching a specific price—based on the performance of other companies?

I made a visual explanation connecting the sample mean to ordinary least squares regression.

The main idea is that the sample mean can be understood as the best constant prediction for a dataset. If you treat the data as a vector, projecting it onto the span of the ones vector gives the average times the ones vector.

Then the same idea extends to OLS regression: y gets projected onto the column space of X, the fitted values are the projection, and the residual is perpendicular to that space.

I made it for people who have seen the normal equations before but want a more intuitive picture of what least squares is actually doing.

I was doing a practice exam for my Statistics university exam and I got stuck on this question, does anyone want to reply with answers / solutions in the comments?

Basically, I’m trying to see if there’s a correlation between the last names of people and their closest friends. Thank you!

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We kept running into the same problem with time-series data during our analysis: forecasts get updated, but old values get overwritten. It was hard to answer to “What did we actually know at a given point in time?”

So we built TimeDB, it lets you store overlapping forecast revisions, keep full history, and run proper as-of backtests.

Quick 5-min Colab demo:
https://colab.research.google.com/github/rebase-energy/timedb/blob/main/examples/quickstart.ipynb

Would love feedback from anyone dealing with forecasting or versioned time-series data.

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Hi everybody! Does anyone knows how to remove extreme variables in excel ( I’m doing no -time series, linear model)- forecasting and bootstrapping. Please help!!

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