Statistical Methods and Data Analytics for Finance (MATH0099)

This is a course about statistical inference and its applications to problems from finance. It consists of theory based lectures, homework problem sheets and a computational project.

The course covers classical topics from statistical inference such as point estimation, confidencesets and hypothesis testing. Subsequently parametric and non-parametric statistical modelswill be discussed, as well as the Bayesian approach to inference. Time permitting we will also cover some elements of modern machine learning techniques. Examples from finance will be given throughout the course.

Foundations of measure theoretic probability theory and stochastic analysis: measure and probability spaces, random variables and distribution functions, Lebesgue integral, expectation of random variables, independence, law of large numbers, central limit theorem, conditional expectation, martingales, Itô integral, Itô processes, Itô’s formula. Data handling: cleaning and visualizing data. Statistical inference: parametric and nonparametric models, hypothesis testing and p-values, bootstrapping, parametric inference, Bayesian inference. Learning: supervised and unsupervised learning, linear regression, basis expansions and regularization, support vector machines, neural networks.

SPANISH MEDICINE LEVEL 7|SPANISH|LANGUAGE|PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES|MEDICS

Spanish for Medicine Level 7: Professional Purposes (LCMB0042)

The course is designed for very advanced level students requiring the language for professional purposes. It comprises knowledge and understanding both of the structure of the language and its use in professional environments, such as presentations, meetings and conferences.  The course covers career development in the target language countries, business culture and conventions, negotiating and interacting, reading specialist medical texts, note-taking and debates as well as other related topics. These areas will be related back to medicine.The course will enhance knowledge and use of linguistically complex structures (a variety of styles and registers from a range of authentic material).  Various transferable skills will also be further developed.

For full module details please see the CLIE SSC language modules site at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/languages-international-education/study/modules/languages-sscs