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Old 11-05-2007, 09:34 PM
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Default Re: Learning about Linear Regressions

Thanks for the advice everyone; I appreciate the help.

I guess what I'm looking for is a book, program, class etc. that helps me take baby steps into developing the framework useful for quantitative financial analysis/engineering. I realize that regressions aren't hard and knew how to run them since high school, but I want to start slowly developing advanced quantitative skills applied to finance. I currently hold a job that mostly entails fundamental analysis, which requires little to no advanced math, but I feel that learning some more advanced mathematical techniques will go a long way with the type of work I’m doing.

As of now, I work around 12-13 hours per day and study up on fundamental analysis around 5-10 hours a week in my spare time. I don’t think another book is too feasible at this point due to the fact that I’m already cramming so much information into my little brain (I just began working, so I’m learning a lot of things at once). Even though a program or class would have the same amount of information content, I think having it enter into my head a different way would make it feasible. I would prefer a class above all, but the biggest problem I see is the lack of availability. I’ve taken a few advanced statistics classes in college and did fairly well in them, but for the most part have forgotten what I learned due to not being able to apply those concepts in my job. I guess what I need is a financial mathematics class, but I’m not sure where the best place to go about finding this is.

Any additional help is greatly appreciated.
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