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A Course on Statistics for Finance

Stanley L. Sclove
Publisher: 
Chapman & Hall/CRC
Publication Date: 
2013
Number of Pages: 
251
Format: 
Hardcover
Price: 
89.95
ISBN: 
9781439892541
Category: 
Textbook
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INTRODUCTORY CONCEPTS AND DEFINITIONS
Review of Basic Statistics
What Is Statistics?
Characterizing Data
Measures of Central Tendency
Measures of Variability
Higher Moments
Summarizing Distributions
Bivariate Data
Three Variables
Two-Way Tables

Stock Price Series and Rates of Return
Introduction
Sharpe Ratio
Value-at-Risk
Distributions for RORs

Several Stocks and Their Rates of Return
Introduction
Review of Covariance and Correlation
Two Stocks
Three Stocks
m Stocks

REGRESSION
Simple Linear Regression; CAPM and Beta
Introduction
Simple Linear Regression
Estimation
Inference Concerning the Slope
Testing Equality of Slopes of Two Lines through the Origin
Linear Parametric Functions
Variances Dependent upon X
A Financial Application: CAPM and "Beta"
Slope and Intercept

Multiple Regression and Market Models
Multiple Regression Models
Market Models
Models with Both Numerical and Dummy Explanatory Variables
Model Building

PORTFOLIO ANALYSIS
Mean-Variance Portfolio Analysis
Introduction
Two Stocks
Three Stocks
m Stocks
m Stocks and a Risk-Free Asset
Value-at-Risk
Selling Short
Market Models and Beta

Utility-Based Portfolio Analysis
Introduction
Single-Criterion Analysis

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS
Introduction to Time Series Analysis
Introduction
Control Charts
Moving Averages
Need for Modeling
Trend, Seasonality, and Randomness
Models with Lagged Variables
Moving-Average Models
Identification of ARIMA Models
Seasonal Data
Dynamic Regression Models
Simultaneous Equations Models

Regime Switching Models
Introduction
Bull and Bear Markets

Appendix A: Vectors and Matrices
Appendix B: Normal Distributions
Appendix C: Lagrange Multipliers
Appendix D: Abbreviations and Symbols

Index

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