Are you innately curious about dynamically inter-operating financial markets? Since the crisis of 2008, there is a need for professionals with more understanding about statistics and data analysis, who can discuss the various risk metrics, particularly those involving extreme events. By providing a resource for training students and professionals in basic and sophisticated analytics, this book meets that need. It offers both the intuition and basic vocabulary as a step towards the financial, statistical, and algorithmic knowledge required to resolve the industry problems, and it depicts a systematic way of developing analytical programs for finance in the statistical language R. Build a hands-on laboratory and run many simulations. Explore the analytical fringes of investments and risk management. Bennett and Hugen help profit-seeking investors and data science students sharpen their skills in many areas, including time-series, forecasting, portfolio selection, covariance clustering, prediction, and derivative securities.

Financial Analytics with R sharpens readers' skills in time-series, forecasting, portfolio selection, covariance clustering, prediction, and derivative securities.

About the Author
Mark J. Bennett is a senior data scientist with a major investment bank and a lecturer in the University of Chicago's Master's program in analytics. He has held software positions at Argonne National Laboratory, Unisys Corporation, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Northrop Grumman, and XR Trading Securities. Dirk L. Hugen is a graduate student in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Iowa. He previously worked as a signal processing engineer.

Reviews
'A very well-written text on financial analytics, focusing on developing statistical models and using simulation to better understand financial data. R is used throughout for examples, allowing the reader to use the text and code to actively engage in the financial market. It is simply the best text on this subject that I have seen. Highly recommended.' Joseph M. Hilbe, Arizona State University
'There's a new source in town for those who want to learn R and it's a good, old-fashioned book called Financial Analytics with R: Building a Laptop Laboratory for Data Science ... it is a one-stop-shop for everything you need to know to use R for financial analysis. The book meaningfully combines an education on R with relevant problem-solving in financial analysis. [It] is thorough and contextualized with examples from extreme financial events in recent times such as the housing crisis and the Euro crisis. The code samples are relevant - think functions to compute the Sharpe ratio or to implement Bayesian reasoning - and answer many of the questions you might have while trying them out. This is a book that will make you a better practitioner/student/analyst/entrepreneur - whatever your goals may be.' Carrie Shaw, Quandl
'The book at hand is unusual in addressing beginners, and in treating R as a general number crunching tool. ... It is also one of very few books on R really written for non-statistician non-programmers. ... R seems a viable programming language for STEM students to learn, and learning a programming language seems a good idea for such students. This book appears to be the best option for accomplishing that.' Robert W. Hayden, Mathematical Association of America Reviews (www.maa.org)



Book Information
ISBN 9781107150751
Author Mark J. Bennett
Format Hardback
Page Count 392
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 920g
Dimensions(mm) 254mm * 180mm * 22mm