This is an introduction to an investment course that focuses on basic models used in the financial industry for investment and decision making. The course begins with an overview of the investment ...

Abstract: Any data modeling exercise has two main components: parameter estimation and model selection. The latter will be the topic of this lecture note. More concretely, we introduce several ...

Abstract: The Kalman filter and the least mean square (LMS) adaptive filter are two of the most popular adaptive estimation algorithms that are often used interchangeably in a number of statistical ...

This lecture notes provides an overview of budgeting and financial management in the public and non-profit sectors. Fundamental concepts and practices of budgeting, financial management and public ...