TY - BOOK AU - Watsham, Terry J. AU - Parramore, Keith. TI - Quantitative methods in finance SN - 0412608200 [newsprint] PY - 1997/// CY - London PB - International Thomson Business Press KW - Finance KW - Mathematical models. N1 - Contents: 1 Interest rates and asset returns -- 2 Presentation of data and descriptive statistics -- 3 Calculus applied to finance -- 4 Probability distributions: applications to asset returns -- 5 Statistical inference: confidence intervals and hypothesis testing -- 6 Regression analysis -- 7 Time-series analysis -- 8 Numerical methods -- 9 Optimization -- 10 Continuous time mathematics in finance: asset prices as a stochastic process -- 11 Multivariate analysis: principal components analysis and factor analysis ER -