News Professor Cheng-Few Lee ranks #1 based on his publications in the 26 core finance journals, and #163 based on publications in the 7 leading finance journals (Source: Most Prolific Authors in the Finance Literature: 1959-2008 by Jean L Heck and Philip L Cooley (Saint Joseph's University and Trinity University).This is an extensively revised edition of a popular statistics textbook for business and economics students. The first edition has been adopted by universities and colleges worldwide, including New York University, Carnegie Mellon University and UCLA.Designed for upper-level undergraduates, MBA and other graduate students, this book closely integrates various statistical techniques with concepts from business, economics and finance and clearly demonstrates the power of statistical methods in the real world of business. While maintaining the essence of the first edition, the new edition places more emphasis on finance, economics and accounting concepts with updated sample data. Students will find this book very accessible with its straightforward language, ample cases, examples, illustrations and real-life applications. The book is also useful for financial analysts and portfolio managers.
The authors do a very good job for writing this book, especially for some students who don't really have mathematical background. It's very easy to understand what is the authors purpose. I recommend this book.
Excellent for MSF, MBA and Undergraduate Students
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
I used the first edition this book teaching financial econometrics at a university in Boston. The text is an excellent beginning book in statistics at the undergraduate and the MBA and MSF levels. For my advanced students I covered the chapters on analysis of variance and chi-square tests, simple regression analysis and correlation coefficent, multiple regression analysis, other topics in applied regression analysis, nonparametric statistics and time series analysis including forecasting. The statistical theories showed the mathematical derivations, often in appendices, yet included easy to follow numerical examples which students appreciated very much. The first edition was one of the first statistics books with particular attention paid to appllications using corporate finance, investment and banking data.The only shortcomings dealt with typographical errors found in several places, and solution errors in the accompanying instructors' manual. Overall, an excellent statistics book for the first-timer and a worthy addition to the library of a specialist, especially one with a financial perspective.
a fairly easy book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 24 years ago
Hi, When I try to look into the table contents of this book, I found it is for beginners of statistics only. Unless you are entry level of this area, I suggest you to buy some other books together.
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