Financial Econometrics and Data Analysis - Fordham University

Financial Econometrics and Data Analysis from Fordham University is a Campus Certificate Economics degree that prepares you for a Business career. Due to the advent of digital data acquisition and storage technology, the financial world is faced with enormous amounts of data. It has been a great challenge to the financial community as to how to extract critical business knoweldge from this data. The Certificate in Financial Econometrics and Data Analysis is designed to address this problem. This certificate will enhance one's career prospects by providing the analytical and programming skills needed to analyze the large data sets commonly found in business. This certificate leverages the graduate programs in Computer Science and in Economics at Fordham University , and provides industry professionals with a state-of-the-art, rigorous training in quantitative analysis. This unique advanced certificate combines the strengths of both disciplines. The topics covered by the Advanced Certificate will include: Econometric techniques, beginning with least squares estimation, method of moments, maximum likelihood, and culminating in forecasting and modeling of financial variables Statistical diagnostics and corrections for data, taught using an industry standard data analysis tool (e.g., SAS) Exploratory data-analysis (data mining) techniques for dealing with the large data sets. Classification algorithms will be covered (e.g., decision trees and neural networks), as well as clustering and association rule mining algorithms. Exploratory data analysis systems (for example, SAS Enterprise Miner), used to build hands-on experience. View more details on Fordham University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Economics courses.