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Financial Analytics with R: Building a Laptop Laboratory for Data Science
Mark Bennett
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Description for Financial Analytics with R: Building a Laptop Laboratory for Data Science
hardcover. Financial Analytics with R sharpens readers' skills in time-series, forecasting, portfolio selection, covariance clustering, prediction, and derivative securities. Num Pages: 392 pages, 60 b/w illus. 100 colour illus. 40 exercises. BIC Classification: KCHS; KFF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 183 x 255 x 23. Weight in Grams: 912.
Are you innately curious about dynamically inter-operating financial markets? Since the crisis of 2008, there is a need for professionals with more understanding about statistics and data analysis, who can discuss the various risk metrics, particularly those involving extreme events. By providing a resource for training students and professionals in basic and sophisticated analytics, this book meets that need. It offers both the intuition and basic vocabulary as a step towards the financial, statistical, and algorithmic knowledge required to resolve the industry problems, and it depicts a systematic way of developing analytical programs for finance in the statistical language R. ... Read more
Are you innately curious about dynamically inter-operating financial markets? Since the crisis of 2008, there is a need for professionals with more understanding about statistics and data analysis, who can discuss the various risk metrics, particularly those involving extreme events. By providing a resource for training students and professionals in basic and sophisticated analytics, this book meets that need. It offers both the intuition and basic vocabulary as a step towards the financial, statistical, and algorithmic knowledge required to resolve the industry problems, and it depicts a systematic way of developing analytical programs for finance in the statistical language R. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107150751
SKU
V9781107150751
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Ref
99-10
About Mark Bennett
Mark J. Bennett is a senior data scientist with a major investment bank and a lecturer in the University of Chicago's Master's program in analytics. He has held software positions at Argonne National Laboratory, Unisys Corporation, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Northrop Grumman, and XR Trading Securities. Dirk L. Hugen is a graduate student in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science ... Read more
Reviews for Financial Analytics with R: Building a Laptop Laboratory for Data Science
'A very well-written text on financial analytics, focusing on developing statistical models and using simulation to better understand financial data. R is used throughout for examples, allowing the reader to use the text and code to actively engage in the financial market. It is simply the best text on this subject that I have seen. Highly recommended.' Joseph M. Hilbe, ... Read more