R for Finance Workshop
http://www.unicom.co.uk/eventdetail.php?epd=74
29 – 30 April, London
Book by Friday, 4 April to qualify for the ‘early bird price’:
£695 + VAT compared to £850 + VAT for two days workshop
R is claimed to be the best tool for many business analytics tasks. An increasing number of organisations are using R for analysis. With the statistical computing software package R, solutions for a large number of real-world problems can be calculated painlessly. Especially in the area of Finance, R is used extensively. Hedge funds and investment banks are already using R to process their many analytic models. A large number of companies in the insurance sector are using R for their modelling works. In this workshop, we outline how simple it is to conduct professional financial engineering tasks using R.
This 2-day workshop aims to provide an introduction to the statistical software R for professionals and academics in finance. It will take you from the installation of R through to producing reports and is specifically tailored to applications in Finance. It will be of benefit to all those professionals and academics, who wish to learn the essentials of the statistical software R and its use in Finance.
Key challenges addressed by the programme include:
• Preparations and installation of R
• Data import, data types and variables
• Simulations in R
• Graphics in R
• Exploratory analysis in R with special focus to time series data
• Applications in Finance: Portfolio optimization and VaR
• R and Excel
• Preparing reports
• Writing R Functions
• Robust Statistics in R
• Volatility Modelling in R
Our speakers are leaders in their field and there will be several hands-on sessions allowing attendees to learn and practise of R and how to apply it to the area of finance.
Registration fee:
Early price ends 4 April: £695 + VAT
Standard price after 4 April: £850 + VAT
In-house training
The standard workshop can be delivered to your team on your premises; it can also be specially tailored to match your business objectives, incorporating case studies and examples from your company or business sector on request. Please get in contact for further information.
Please don’t hesitate to call on 01895 256 484 or email [log in to unmask] to request a booking form or reserve delegate places – discounted rates are available on group bookings.
Kind regards,
Aqeela Rahman
UNICOM Seminars Ltd
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