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Statistics and Data Analysis for Financial Engineering

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  • Examples using financial markets and economic data illustrate important concepts
  • R Labs with real-data exercises give students practice in data analysis
  • Integration of graphical and analytic methods for model selection and model checking quantify and help mitigate risks due to modeling errors and uncertainty
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Table of contents (21 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
  2. Introduction

    • David Ruppert
    Pages 1-4
  3. Returns

    • David Ruppert
    Pages 5-15
  4. Fixed Income Securities

    • David Ruppert
    Pages 17-39
  5. Exploratory Data Analysis

    • David Ruppert
    Pages 41-78
  6. Modeling Univariate Distributions

    • David Ruppert
    Pages 79-130
  7. Resampling

    • David Ruppert
    Pages 131-148
  8. Multivariate Statistical Models

    • David Ruppert
    Pages 149-174
  9. Copulas

    • David Ruppert
    Pages 175-200
  10. Time Series Models: Basics

    • David Ruppert
    Pages 201-255
  11. Time Series Models: Further Topics

    • David Ruppert
    Pages 257-283
  12. Portfolio Theory

    • David Ruppert
    Pages 285-308
  13. Regression: Basics

    • David Ruppert
    Pages 309-340
  14. Regression: Troubleshooting

    • David Ruppert
    Pages 341-367
  15. Regression: Advanced Topics

    • David Ruppert
    Pages 369-411
  16. Cointegration

    • David Ruppert
    Pages 413-422
  17. The Capital Asset Pricing Model

    • David Ruppert
    Pages 423-442
  18. Factor Models and Principal Components

    • David Ruppert
    Pages 443-476
  19. GARCH Models

    • David Ruppert
    Pages 477-504
  20. Risk Management

    • David Ruppert
    Pages 505-529

About this book

<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal">Financial engineers have access to enormous quantities of data but need powerful methods for extracting quantitative information, particularly about volatility and risks. Key features of this textbook are: illustration of concepts with financial markets and economic data, R Labs with real-data exercises, and integration of graphical and analytic methods for modeling and diagnosing modeling errors. Despite some overlap with the author's undergraduate textbook <em>Statistics and Finance: An Introduction</em>, this book differs from that earlier volume in several important aspects: it is graduate-level; computations and graphics are done in R; and many advanced topics are covered, for example, multivariate distributions, copulas, Bayesian computations, VaR and expected shortfall, and cointegration. </div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal">The prerequisites are basic statistics and probability, matrices and linear algebra, and calculus.</div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal">Some exposure to finance is helpful.</div>

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“Book under review is aimed at Master’s students in a financial engineering program and spans the gap between some very basic finance concepts and some very advanced statistical concepts … . The book is evidently intended as, and is best approached as, a kind of working text, giving students the opportunity to work in detail through a variety of examples. The substantial chapters on regression and time series are particularly helpful in this regard. There is lots of useful R code and many example analyses.” (R. A. Maller, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2012 d)

Authors and Affiliations

  • School of Operations Research &, Information Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

    David Ruppert

About the author

<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal">David Ruppert is Andrew Schultz, Jr., Professor of Engineering and Professor of Statistical Science, School of Operations Research and Information Engineering, Cornell University, where he teaches statistics and financial engineering and is a member of the Program in</div>
<div style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal">Financial Engineering. His research areas include asymptotic theory, semiparametric regression, functional data analysis, biostatistics, model calibration, measurement error, and astrostatistics. Professor Ruppert received his PhD in Statistics at Michigan State University. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and won the Wilcoxon prize. He is Editor of the <em>Electronic Journal of Statistics</em>, former Editor of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics' <em>Lecture Notes--Monographs Series</em>, and former Associate Editor of several major statistics journals. Professor Ruppert has published over 100 scientific papers and four books: <em>Transformation and Weighting in Regression</em>, <em>Measurement Error in Nonlinear Models</em>, <em>Semiparametric Regression</em>, and <em>Statistics and Finance: An Introduction</em>.</div> 

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