Summary of content

The aim of this module is to provide students with the necessary skills and knowledge undertake quantitative research projects in Finance. It was designed to provide students with a critical understanding of financial research and technical skills essential for financial research. This mainly includes themes in the fields of econometrics and statistics that will enable them to pursue advanced research in emerging topics in the finance literature. The module will focus on developing applied skills that are also critical to their professional development in the industry, including but not limited to statistical computing skills, and fundamental mathematical concepts in finance and investment.

Key topics include (but are not limited to):

1. Research philosophy and methodology in finance
2. Statistical fundamentals: exploring and interpreting data
3. Modelling variation: probabilities, random variables, distributions
4. Evaluating samples and populations, testing hypotheses
5. Regression analysis
6. Time series analysis.

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