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EC4024 Lecture 4 Probability and Statistics I

 21/01/2008 |  Stephen Kinsella |  Teaching, EC4024 |  

Introduction

Currently, the theory of finance is underpinned by probability theory. To understand financial economics properly, we'll need to spend some time talking through some elementary probability theory in the lectures and in the tutorials, which start next week (week 3).

This lecture will introduce students to the ideas of probability, histograms, distributions, and show some examples.

Length: 50 Minutes

Click the link below to get handouts, homeworks, slides, and links to further reading.

Slides



Handouts


EC4024_Handout_Lecture4

Further Reading

Peter L. Bernstein, Against the Gods, the remarkable story of Risk

Alfred Cowles, Can Stock Market Forecasters Forecast? Econometrica, 1933.

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