Terry Watsham is Principal Lecturer in Finance at the University of Brighton. Keith Parramore is based at the University of Brighton

• 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.Appendix: Statistical Tables.Index.

1. Mathematics of Interest Rate and Asset Returns (e.g. Time Value of Money) 2. The Basic Statistics of Finance (Measures of Location, Dispersion, Skewness, Kurtosis, Covariance and Correlation, Index Numbers) 3. Calculus 4.Probability Distributions of Asset Returns 5. Sampling Theory and Hypothesis Testing 6. Regression Analysis Applied to Finance 7. Time Series Analysis - Arch, Garch and Cointegration 8. Numerical Methods 9. Optimization 10. Stochastic Calculus 11. Multivariate Techniques