This course is an introduction to use Python and stochastic and statistics for financial
Big data analysis. Issues to be explored include:
a. Visualizing and Munging Stock Data
b. Statistics: Random variables and Distribution, Sampling and Inference, Linear Regression Models for Financial Analysis, Bayesian Regression.
c. Stochastics: Random Numbers, Simulation for stochastic process, asset pricing, stock option valuation, risk management: VaR, credit risk management, etc.