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This book is about the analysis of financial markets data. After this brief introductory chapter, we turn immediately in Chapters 2 and 3 to the sources of the data, returns on equities and prices and yields on bonds. Chapter 4 develops methods for informal, often graphical, analysis of data. More formal methods based on statistical inference, that is, estimation and testing, are introduced in Chapter 5.
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Ruppert, D. (2011). Introduction. In: Statistics and Data Analysis for Financial Engineering. Springer Texts in Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7787-8_1
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