2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Intermediate Statistics and Probability
Author : Harry Georgakopoulos
Published in: Quantitative Trading with R
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
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This chapter will explore the statistical nature of stock prices and address the topics of stationarity, normality, and autocorrelation of stock returns. These are important concepts that will enable us to perform statistical inference1 and pave the way for the construction of trading strategies.