Predictive Modeling for Economic and Financial Data

Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to be serving as Guest Editor of the Special Issue “Predictive Modeling for Economic and Financial Data” to be published in JRFM and support related research in this area.

In today’s data-centric world, there is a host of buzzwords appearing everywhere in digital and print media. We encounter data in every walk of life, and the information it contains can be used to improve business, finance, fraud protection and, ultimately, society. This presents a substantial opportunity for analytically and objectively minded researchers. Making sense of the financial data and extracting meaningful information is not always a trivial task. The rapid growth in the size and scope of financial datasets from a host of disciplines has created the need for innovative statistical strategies for analyzing and visualizing such data. Regression analysis has been proven to be a useful and efficient strategy for decades and still plays an important role in sparse regression models.

The contributions to this Special Issue will present new and original research in statistical methods and applications in regression analysis with an emphasis on analysis and prediction of financial data. Financial time series analysis and prediction problems present many challenges for the development of statistical methodology and computational strategies for streaming data. The arena of financial research has drawn much attention from researchers worldwide. This Special Issue aims to provide a platform for a deep discussion of novel statistical methods developed for the analysis of financial data. Contributions can either have an applied or theoretical perspective and emphasize different statistical and econometrical problems specifically using data analytics and statistical methodologies. Manuscripts summarizing the most recent state-of-the-art on these topics are welcome and up-to-date review papers will be also considered for publication.

Prof. Dr. Syed Ejaz Ahmed
Prof. Dr. Nataša Šarlija
Guest Editors

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