Information Coefficient | Coefficients

The correlation between predicted and actual stock returns, sometimes used to measure the value of a financial analyst. An information coefficient (IC) of 1.0 indicates a perfect linear relationship between predicted and actual returns, while an IC of 0.0 indicates no linear relationship.

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