Basic Elements of Computational Statistics (Statistics and Computing)

About the Author

Wolfgang Karl Härdle is the Ladislaus von Bortkiewicz Professor of Statistics at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and Director of C.A.S.E. (Center for Applied Statistics and Economics), Director of the CRC-649 (Collaborative Research Center) "Economic Risk" as well as Director of the IRTG 1792 "High Dimensional Non-stationary Time Series". He teaches quantitative finance and semi-parametric statistics. His research focuses on dynamic factor models, multivariate statistics, tail event curves in finance and computational statistics. He is an elected member of the ISI (International Statistical Institute) and foreign expert professor at Xiamen University, China, and a senior fellow of Sim Kee Boon Institute of Financial Economics at the Singapore Management University.Ostap Okhrin is Professor of Econometrics and Statistics, especially in Transportation at the Dresden University of Technology. He worked at the European University Viadrina and later was an Assistant and then Associate Professor for Statistics of Financial Markets at the Humboldt University of Berlin and one of the principal investigators of the CRC-649 (Collaborative Research Center) "Economic Risk". He teaches multivariate and mathematical statistics. His research focuses on multivariate models in particular copulas and financial econometrics. Yarema Okhrin is Professor of Statistics at the University of Augsburg. He teaches financial econometrics and multivariate data analysis. His research focuses on multivariate statistics and econometrics with applications to finance, statistical surveillance and computational statistics. He previously worked as Assistant Professor of Econometrics at the University of Bern and at the European University Viadrina.