Kurt Hornik: QFin Statistics 1 Winter Semester 2025

Classes

Unit Date Time Location Topic Materials Assignments
Read Chapter 6 B/M
1 2025-11-27 13:00-16:00 TC.2.01 Numerical Linear Algebra Slides Ex 1-5, 8-14, 22, 24, 25, 27, 29, 30 Due: 2025-12-03 23:59 Read Chapter 5 B/M
2 2025-12-04 09:30-13:30 TC.1.01 Random Number Generation Slides Ex 15-21, 23, 26, 28, 31-39 Due: 2025-12-10 23:59
3 2025-12-11 10:00-13:30 TC.1.01 Simulation Slides Ex 41-44, 47-63 Due: 2025-12-17 23:59
4 2025-12-18 10:00-13:30 TC.1.01 Data Management and Exploration Transscript Code Ex 66-80 Due: 2026-01-07 23:59
5 2026-01-08 10:00-13:30 D5.0.001 Data Exploration and Graphics Ex 82-88 Due: 2026-01-14 23:59 Read Labs 1 2 3
6 2026-01-15 10:00-13:30 D5.0.001 Quantmod, Heavy Tails and Copulas Slides Ex 89-96, 98-99, 102-103, 107-108, 110-111 Due: 2026-01-21 23:59
7 2026-01-22 10:00-12:00 TC.0.04 Finals
8 2026-01-29 11:00-16:00 online Presentations

Assignments

Exercises
When submitting homework assignments by email, please use the subject ‘Statistics 1 Unit n Team k’, where n is the number of the unit and k is the numer of your team.
Submit by email to Polina Atovmyan <polina.atovmyan@s.wu.ac.at>, and <Kurt.Hornik@wu.ac.at>, and cc all team members.
Please use Sweave or knitr, and submit both the PDF and the Rnw/Rmd!
Homework and presentation teams and presentation slots:
1 Burigana, Kupeev, Mokliak, Ossani, Pavlova 11:40-12:00
2 Dushin, Kraciuk, Turhan, Uszko, Vasarhelyi 12:20-12:40
3 Borbas (†), Holzmann, Mirtchev, O'Sullivan, Sorochynska 11:00-11:20
4 Amelina, Capka, Dubini, Rzepka, Szaniszlo 15:20-15:40
5 Bachtiary, El Hariri, Pell, Rapoport, Woegerer 15:00-15:20
6 Marcius, Ntallas, Pilz, Simic, Zizliauskaite 13:00-13:20
7 Balli, Boross, Machetta, Morozov, Mykhailiuk 14:20-14:40
8 Attanasio, Friedrich, Illes, Kolev, Maraj 14:00-14:20
9 Burlutskaya, Candrak, Docs, Gruenstaeudl, Nenadic (†), Rubanov 13:40-14:00
10 Baron von Westernhagen, Krieger, Li Jingqi, Radovanovic, Vazsonyi 11:20-11:40
11 De Pasquale (†), Ellecosta, Li Daniil, Molnar, Vershinin 12:00-12:20
12 Karmazin, Leitner, Malcoci, Reinhold, Vorhauser 13:20-13:40
Students marked ‘†’ have left the program/course.
Presentation groups and teams:
Group Teams
A Team 2 (76), Team 5 (81), Team 7 (90), Team 1 (95)
B Team 6 (77), Team 10 (79), Team 11 (92), Team 12 (111)
C Team 3 (78), Team 4 (82), Team 9 (89), Team 8 (109)
Teams submit all 4 problems in their group as homeworks, and present "their" problem.

Materials

Lecture notes (Numerical linear algebra, simulation, data management and exploration, graphics): PDF Code
Lab 1 "How to get Data - An Introduction into quantmod": PDF Code
Lab 2 "Exploring Heavy Tails - Pareto and Generalized Pareto Distributions": PDF Code
Lab 3 "First steps of multivariate data analysis": PDF Code

Downloads

German credit data: Data Docs; Coffee data; Utilities data.

Literature

W. John Braun and Duncan J. Murdoch: A First Course in Statistical Programming with R. Cambridge University Press ISBN 9781316451090, 2016. DOI:10.1017/CBO9781316451090.

Links

Electronic University Calendar (eVVZ)
Setting up R and LATEX



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