Here are some articles on Level I Quantitative Methods. If you’d like to see more articles on Level I Quant, just ask.
- Annuities and Perpetuities
- Basics of Probability
- Basics of Statistics
- Bayes’ Formula
- Binomial Distribution
- Binomial Trees (for Stocks)
- Central Limit Theorem
- Chebyshev’s Inequality
- Chi-Square (χ²) Distribution
- Comparing Yield Measures
- Confidence Intervals
- Continuous Uniform Distribution
- Covariance and Correlation
- Degrees of Freedom
- Discrete Uniform Distribution
- Frequency Distributions
- Hypothesis Testing
- Hypothesis Testing – Synopsis
- Hypothesis Testing – Step 1: State the Hypotheses
- Hypothesis Testing – Step 2: Select the Appropriate Test Statistic
- Hypothesis Testing – Step 3: Specify the Level of Significance
- Hypothesis Testing – Step 4: State the Decision Rule for Testing the Null Hypothesis
- Hypothesis Testing – Step 5: Collect the Sample Data and Calculate the Value of the Test Statistic
- Hypothesis Testing – Step 6: Make a Decision Regarding the Null and Alternative Hypotheses
- Hypothesis Testing – Step 7: Make a (Business) Decision Based on the Results of the Test
- Interest Rate Basics
- Isles (or iles) of CFA: Quartiles, Quintiles, Deciles, Percentiles
- Kurtosis
- Lognormal Distribution
- Measures of Central Tendency: Mean, Median, Mode
- Measures of Dispersion: Range, Mean Absolute Deviation, Variance, and Standard Deviation
- Money-Weighted Rate of Return (MWRR) vs. Time-Weighted Rate of Return (TWRR)
- Multivariate Normal Distributions
- Net Present Value (NPV) and Internal Rate of Return (IRR)
- Nominal vs. Effective Interest Rates
- Normal Distribution
- Parametric Tests vs. Nonparametric Tests
- Probability Distributions
- p vs. α
- Risk vs. Return – Quant
- Sample Standard Deviation
- Sampling and Estimation
- Skewness
- Student’s t-Distribution
- Technical Analysis
- Time Value of Money: Using Timelines
- Using Your Fingers and Toes: Counting
- Yield Measures