{"product_id":"9781461427490","title":"Springer Texts in Statistics","description":"\u003ch1\u003eSpringer Texts in Statistics\u003c\/h1\u003e \u003ch2\u003eRuppert, David\u003c\/h2\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u0026lt;div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal\"\u0026gt;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 \u0026lt;em\u0026gt;Statistics and Finance: An Introduction\u0026lt;\/em\u0026gt;, 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. \u0026lt;\/div\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026lt;div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal\"\u0026gt;The prerequisites are basic statistics and probability, matrices and linear algebra, and calculus.\u0026lt;\/div\u0026gt;\u003cbr\u003e\u0026lt;div style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; LINE-HEIGHT: normal\"\u0026gt;Some exposure to finance is helpful.\u0026lt;\/div\u0026gt;\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished by: Springer\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublication Date: 2012-12-27\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eISBN-13: 9781461427490\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDOI: 10.1007\/978-1-4419-7787-8\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDimensions: 235cm x155cm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePages: 638\u003c\/p\u003e ","brand":"Springer New York","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46541066600588,"sku":"9781461427490","price":98.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9781461427490.jpg?v=1772819290","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781461427490","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}