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" and 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 in finance and computational statistics. He is an elected member of the ISI (International Statistical Institute) and advisor to the Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, and senior fellow of Sim Kee Boon Institute of Financial Economics at the Singapore Management University.

Zdenek Hlávka studied mathematics at the Charles University in Prague and biostatistics at Limburgs Universitair Centrum in Diepenbeek. Later he held a position at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin before he became amember of the Department of Probability and Mathematical Statistics at Charles University in Prague.

Goes further than most similar textbooks by considering SIR techniques that are not found typically in multivariate textbooks

Data sets discussed in the book can be downloaded and analyzed by every statistical package

Contains hundreds of solved exercises

Part I Descriptive Techniques: Comparison of Batches.- Part II Multivariate Random Variables: A Short Excursion into Matrix Algebra.- Moving to Higher.- Multivariate.- Theory of the Multinormal.- Theory of Estimation.- Part III Multivariate Techniques: Regression Models.- Variable Selection.- Decomposition of Data Matrices by Factors.- Principal Component Analysis.- Factor Analysis.- Cluster Analysis.- Discriminant Analysis.- Correspondence Analysis.- Canonical Correlation Analysis.- Multidimensional Scaling.- Conjoint Measurement Analysis.- Applications in Finance.- Highly Interactive, Computationally Intensive Techniques.- Data Sets.- References.- Index.