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title: "Introduction to Computational Finance and Financial Econometrics with R"
author: "Eric Zivot"
date: "2022-02-25T22:37:17Z"
tags: [Econometrics, Course, Statistics]
link: "https://bookdown.org/compfinezbook/introFinRbook/"
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Add description [...] Outline of preface (preliminary and incomplete). June 21, 2016. I started teaching the course Introduction to Financial Econometrics at UW in 1998. Motivation was to teach more statistics and quantitative methods to economics majors. I found that combining statistics topics with finance applications was very effective and popular. Early classes used Microsoft Excel as the main software tool (R was not around then). Experience with Excel was, and still is, in high demand by employers in the finance industry. However, Excel is not a good tool for doing statistics. In early  ...
