R Programming for Finance
This course will teach you the essential elements of R to build practically useful applications and conduct data analysis for finance.
This Professional Certificate comprises the following courses:
This course is a component of the Data Analysis and Programming for Finance Professional Certificate.
Prerequisite knowledge:
- Basic probability and statistics
- Some familiarity with financial securities and derivatives
- Elementary differential and integral calculus
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Module 1: R Basics
- The IDE: RStudio
- R syntax
- R objects: vectors, matrices, arrays, data frames and lists
- Flow control: branching, looping and truth testing
- Importing and manipulating data
- Plotting with R
Module 1: Data Analysis with R
- Manipulating data frames
- Descriptive statistics
- Inference and time series analysis
Module 2: R Applications
- Regression analysis
- Volatility modeling
- Risk management: VaR and ES