Course Detail
Units:
3.0
Course Components:
Lecture
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement:
Prerequisites: Graduate Standing or Masters status in the David Eccles School of Business.
Description
This course focuses on understanding and applying the principles of uncertainty and modeling to business and financial problems. Core topics will be quantifying uncertainty, correlations, inference, and common statistical method, with applications using commonly available or freeware statistical tools (excel, R). Regression, time series and common finance applications of CAPM and Fama-French models will be explored.