Courses
ECON7950 Business and Economic Forecasting with Big Data (3 units)
- Prerequisite:
- ECON7900 Statistics for Data Science
The course aims at deepening students’ understanding about statistics and data analytics who can discuss the various risk metrics, particularly those involving extreme events. 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.