TY - BOOK AU - Bennett,Mark J. AU - Hugen,Dirk L. TI - Financial analytics with R: building a laptop laboratory for data science SN - 9781107150751 AV - HG104 .B46 2016 U1 - 332.0285/513 23 PY - 2016/// CY - Cambridge, UK PB - Cambridge University Press KW - R (Computer program language) KW - R (logiciel) KW - rero KW - Finance KW - Databases KW - Mathematical models KW - Data processing KW - fast N1 - Bibliography: pages 372-375 N2 - 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 ER -