Forecasting the Direction of Short-Term Crude Oil Price Changes with Genetic-Fuzzy Information Distribution

Table 1

The descriptive statistics of oil returns.

Series	Mean	Maximum	Minimum	Standard deviation	Skewness	Kurtosis
Brent	0.001359	0.045343	-0.044136	0.015835	-0.282877	3.24081
WTI	0.001153	0.073341	-0.052511	0.016796	-0.052855	4.89266