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Summary: What a rip-off
Review: After spending big money for this book, I was shocked I had to shell out even more money to get the data and S-plus scripts. Her book is like an old style teaser. Don't get suckered in.
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Summary: A Great Tool to get an Intuitive Feel for Statistics
Review: I took Prof. Carmona's class at Princeton using lecture notes from which the book is directly derived. I can say that I had no better experience than this class, and it truly gave the layman (that would be me) a great feel for basic and intermediate statistical techniques and analysis. Prof. Carmona's intention, as he stated at the beginning of the course was to give us a "license to practice statistics" and I think successful study of this book will give you just that.
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Summary: No data and software online
Review: The links to datasets and software don't work. If you read the preface online at Springer you will be misleaded thinking that the author will maintain a site with the data and software used in the book. In fact if you will need to buy finmetrics(Splus module) to reproduce the examples.
I don't recommend.
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Summary: Dataset available now Prof Carmona's site
Review: while I agree that Prof Carmona should have made the dataset available upon launching the book (...), I think you guys should have taken the time to email him and just ask for it, which I did. Besides this book is just what the doctor ordered for those us fluent in S-Plus and that have adopted it as tool of choice to perform empirical finance work. I rate this book 4 stars.
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