These intermediate Microsoft Excel courses are designed for delegates who have used Excel before and want to expand their knowledge.
By the end of this session, participants will be able to apply – Excel statistical tools, present and explain metrics – Undertake regression analysis – Create and apply forecasting models and tools to data – Analyse and explain Confidence Intervals and statistical significance
– Descriptive Statistics: AVERAGE, MEDIAN, STDEV (Historic Volatility), SKEW, KURT, QUARTILE / IQR – Building Return Distribution Histograms and Calculating Value at Risk (VaR): FREQUENCY (Array Function), NORMDIST, NORMSINV, PERCENTILE – Forecasting asset prices using stochastic models: Building a geometric Brownian motion Monte Carlo Simulation using NORMSINV(RAND()) and historic volatility – Linear Regression Statistics: INTERCEPT, SLOPE, CORREL, R^2, FORECAST – Forecasting stock prices using CAPM and Confidence Intervals: Stating the bounds of stock performance given historic / implied volatility. – Automating the model with the use of Data Validation and INDIRECT – Charts: Column, Line, X, Y Scatter
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