A course on statistics for finance /
Taking a data-driven approach, A Course on Statistics for Finance presents statistical methods for financial investment analysis. The author introduces regression analysis, time series analysis, and multivariate analysis step by step using models and methods from finance. The book begins with a revi...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Boca Raton, Fla. ; London :
CRC Press,
c2013.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Taking a data-driven approach, A Course on Statistics for Finance presents statistical methods for financial investment analysis. The author introduces regression analysis, time series analysis, and multivariate analysis step by step using models and methods from finance. The book begins with a review of basic statistics, including descriptive statistics, kinds of variables, and types of data sets. It then discusses regression analysis in general terms and in terms of financial investment models, such as the capital asset pricing model and the Fama/French model. It also describes mean-variance portfolio analysis and concludes with a focus on time series analysis. Providing the connection between elementary statistics courses and quantitative finance courses, this text helps both existing and future quants improve their data analysis skills and better understand the modeling process. |
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| Item Description: | "A Chapman & Hall book." |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxvii, 251 pages :) illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781439892541 1439892547 1439892555 9781439892558 |