Jul 01, 2025  
Fall 2025 Graduate Catalog 
    
Fall 2025 Graduate Catalog

AMS 516 - Statistical Methods in Finance


The course introduces statistical methodologies in quantitative finance. Financial applications and statistical methodologies are intertwined in all lectures. The course will cover regression analysis and applications to the Capital Asset Pricing Model and multifactor pricing models, principal components and multivariate analysis, statistical methods for financial time series; value at risk, smoothing techniques and estimation of yield curves, and estimation and modeling of volatilities.

3 credits

Prerequisite(s): AMS 507  

Grading ABCF grading