A Course on Statistics for Finance

Stanley L. Sclove is a professor of statistics in the Department of Information and Decision Sciences of the College of Business Administration at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC). His areas of specialization within statistics include multivariate statistical analysis, cluster analysis, time series analysis, and model selection criteria. Dr. Sclove’s research interests include time series segmentation and regime switching via Markov models. He is an officer of the Classification Society and the Section of Risk Analysis of the American Statistical Association.

INTRODUCTORY CONCEPTS AND DEFINITIONS: Review of Basic Statistics. Stock Price Series and Rates of Return. Several Stocks and Their Rates of Return. REGRESSION: Simple Linear Regression; CAPM and Beta. Multiple Regression and Market Models. PORTFOLIO ANALYSIS: Mean-Variance Portfolio Analysis. Utility-Based Portfolio Analysis. TIME SERIES ANALYSIS: Introduction to Time Series Analysis. Regime Switching Models. Appendices. Index.