--- product_id: 52393828 title: "Modeling Financial Time Series with S-PLUS®" price: "€ 166.96" currency: EUR in_stock: false reviews_count: 4 url: https://www.desertcart.gr/products/52393828-modeling-financial-time-series-with-s-plus store_origin: GR region: Greece --- # Modeling Financial Time Series with S-PLUS® **Price:** € 166.96 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Modeling Financial Time Series with S-PLUS® - **How much does it cost?** € 166.96 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.gr](https://www.desertcart.gr/products/52393828-modeling-financial-time-series-with-s-plus) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description desertcart.com: Modeling Financial Time Series with S-PLUS®: 9780387279657: Zivot, Eric, Wang, Jiahui: Books Review: Indispensible - Just to be clear: buying this book does not mean you are buying S+Finmetrics. You need to purchase Splus base + the Finmetrics module separately. Unfortunately I tried to call SPLUS (twice) to obtain an academic license, and no one ever called me back. I ended up getting a copy from my university. I wish SPLUS would set up an online download, where I can simply pay with a credit card and download the product immediately, instead of dealing with sales people. That's a very archaic distribution system in my opinion. But this review is about this book. In fact, this book is AMAZING. It is basically a unique combination of a S+Finmetrics userguide and a primer on financial econometrics. It covers virtually all aspects of modern financial econometrics with an emphasis on practical examples. Theory is discussed to illustrate and motivate the examples. There are no proofs. If you want understand, say, a Vector Autoregression foreasting error decomposition, are you going to slog through Hamilton's "Time Series Analysis" and try to implement it on your own? No, you are going to turn to the nice tidy description in Ch11 of this book, and then call the "fevd" method, so you know what is doing and how to interpret the results. A note on R vs. S+Finmetrics: much of the functionality in S+ Finmetrics is available in R, it's just spread across a lot of different packages. The advantage of a commercial product such as S+ Finmetrics is that it consolidates these packages, and provides (more or less) standardized methods and classes to support them. For example, in R it is possible to fit a long memory ARIMA model using the function fracdiff. However in R the function fracdiff does not return residuals, the inclusion of exogenous x variables or support forecasting (no predict method). In SPLUS, the same function (FARIMA) returns all of these. Review: Deceptive Title - As other reviewers have mentioned, this book is useless without FinMetrics. It is merely a user manual for that package, and has hardly any intrinsic value on its own. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #2,054,245 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #333 in Econometrics & Statistics #374 in Mathematical & Statistical Software #500 in Business Statistics | | Customer Reviews | 4.0 4.0 out of 5 stars (5) | | Dimensions | 6 x 1.76 x 9.2 inches | | Edition | 2nd | | ISBN-10 | 0387279652 | | ISBN-13 | 978-0387279657 | | Item Weight | 3.05 pounds | | Language | English | | Print length | 1020 pages | | Publication date | December 8, 2005 | | Publisher | Springer | ## Images ![Modeling Financial Time Series with S-PLUS® - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/615GjqBurgL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Indispensible *by S***N on October 26, 2008* Just to be clear: buying this book does not mean you are buying S+Finmetrics. You need to purchase Splus base + the Finmetrics module separately. Unfortunately I tried to call SPLUS (twice) to obtain an academic license, and no one ever called me back. I ended up getting a copy from my university. I wish SPLUS would set up an online download, where I can simply pay with a credit card and download the product immediately, instead of dealing with sales people. That's a very archaic distribution system in my opinion. But this review is about this book. In fact, this book is AMAZING. It is basically a unique combination of a S+Finmetrics userguide and a primer on financial econometrics. It covers virtually all aspects of modern financial econometrics with an emphasis on practical examples. Theory is discussed to illustrate and motivate the examples. There are no proofs. If you want understand, say, a Vector Autoregression foreasting error decomposition, are you going to slog through Hamilton's "Time Series Analysis" and try to implement it on your own? No, you are going to turn to the nice tidy description in Ch11 of this book, and then call the "fevd" method, so you know what is doing and how to interpret the results. A note on R vs. S+Finmetrics: much of the functionality in S+ Finmetrics is available in R, it's just spread across a lot of different packages. The advantage of a commercial product such as S+ Finmetrics is that it consolidates these packages, and provides (more or less) standardized methods and classes to support them. For example, in R it is possible to fit a long memory ARIMA model using the function fracdiff. However in R the function fracdiff does not return residuals, the inclusion of exogenous x variables or support forecasting (no predict method). In SPLUS, the same function (FARIMA) returns all of these. ### ⭐ Deceptive Title *by A***R on January 29, 2005* As other reviewers have mentioned, this book is useless without FinMetrics. It is merely a user manual for that package, and has hardly any intrinsic value on its own. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This is the best applied financial econometrics book. *by "***" on October 29, 2002* This is an excellent book on financial econometrics, very practical yet rigorous. I wish all econometrics/statistics textbook could like this. Basic theory followed by practical examples - real life examples, not simplified ones like in other books. The authors gave detailed instructions on how to implement various econometric models, i.e. multi-factor models, GARCH, MGARCH, long memory models, state-space, etc. Most econometrics textbooks are at two extremes, they are either too theoretical (you still don't know how to put those models in real life), or too simple (lack of mathematical rigor and without advanced applications). This book is a combination of both worlds, computer codes/math models, and real life examples (some really good ones). 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