ec4024 lecture 4
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EC4024Lecture 4
| Probability & Statistics in Finance |
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Today
Risk & Uncertainty
Define Probability/Statistics
Why is it used in Finance?
Examples
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Mini Presentations
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Risk & Uncertainty
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ProbabilityIt is a measure of how plausible an event is
We measure probability using a real number between 0 and 1
(Percentage is clear?)
A probability of 0 means an event is impossible
Probability of 1 means an event is certain
The probabilities of all the events in our sample space add up to 1
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Experiments
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Histograms
200 400 600 800
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Law of Large Numbers
Handout
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Distributions
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Bored?
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Example: Hold’Em
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