Statistics for Finance

Learn core probability and statistics with Python tools and real applications in finance and business

Created by: Cameron Connell
Mathematician, Statistician, and Quantitative Financier

What Will I Learn?

• Learn the probability foundations of modern statistics
• Mean, variance, skewness, and kurtosis, and their significance and application in finance
• Apply maximum likelihood estimation and the method of moments to financial models
• Master Python tools for handling financial data and carrying out statistical analysis on it

Requirements

• No knowledge of statistics or finance is necessary.
• Some mathematics background at a business school or high school level is all that is assumed

Target audience

• Finance students and working financial professionals who want to level up their statistics skills
• Students in any area where statistics are used who would like to learn statistics with an emphasis on applications