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Please note: FINC-430/440 has a pre- or co-requisite of DECS-434. To accommodate students who wish to take FINC-430/440 in the fall quarter but do not have the statistics background covered in DECS-434, the finance department will offer a series of statistics tutorials in conjunction with FINC-430/440. Students who attend the tutorials or who have covered the statistics prerequisites as undergraduates will have a sufficient background to take FINC-430/440. The tutorials, however, are not a replacement for the DECS-434 core requirement.
The only co-requisite you need to be able to know from Stats for Finance I are the following:
1) A basic understanding of what standard deviation and correlation coefficient are
2) Knowledge of how a best fit line works (read basic)
3) Knowledge of what a beta coefficient is (see regression coefficients)
Sure you touch on epsilon and alpha - but that's very quickly. The stats behind it are also touched on in the class with a refresher anyway.