Kurt Hornik: QFin Statistics 1 Winter Semester 2024

Classes

Unit Date Time Location Topic Materials Assignments
Read Chapter 6 B/M
1 2024-11-28 17:30-21:00 TC.1.02 Numerical Linear Algebra Slides
2 2024-12-05 09:00-12:30 D5.0.001 Random Number Generation Slides
3 2024-12-10 13:00-16:30 TC.0.02 Simulation Slides
4 2024-12-19 09:30-13:00 D5.0.001 Data Management and Exploration
5 2025-01-09 09:00-12:30 D5.0.001 Data Exploration and Graphics
6 2025-01-16 09:00-12:30 D5.0.001 Quantmod, Heavy Tails and Copulas Slides
7 2025-01-23 10:00-12:00 TC.0.01 Finals
8 2025-01-30 09:00-17:00 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 Margarida Ramos Silva <margarida.ramos.silva@s.wu.ac.at>, Luis Diego Pena Monge <luis.diego.pena.monge@s.wu.ac.at> and 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!

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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