Preparatory course for Quantitative Methods for Finance

English
FORK 1015
0 Credits

Introduction

This preparatory course is meant to help students with the transition from the bachelor to the master level. It reviews four important topics in quantitative methods that students are assumed to be familiar with at the beginning of the first semester.

The course is an online course designed for students on MSc in Finance and MSc in Sustainable Finance, but it will be available for students on all MSc programmes. No ECTS credits are awarded, and there is no exam, but it is possible to do a multiple choice test at the end of the course.

Course content

Probability theory (about two hours of videos plus exercises)
Probability distributions (about two hours of videos plus exercises)
Sampling and estimation (about two hours of videos plus exercises)
Hypothesis testing (about two hours of videos plus exercises)

Disclaimer

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