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Tampere University Student’s Guide

Course unit, curriculum year 2025–2026
DATA.STAT.610

Financial Mathematics and Statistics, 5 cr

Tampere University
Teaching periods
Active in period 1 (1.8.2025–19.10.2025)
Course code
DATA.STAT.610
Language of instruction
English
Academic years
2024–2025, 2025–2026, 2026–2027
Level of study
Advanced studies
Grading scale
General scale, 0-5
Persons responsible
Responsible teacher:
Juho Kanniainen
Responsible organisation
Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences 100 %
Coordinating organisation
Computing Sciences Studies 100 %
  • Arbitrage pricing
  • Derivative contracts in financial markets
  • Pricing with tree models
  • Stochastic processes for asset price modelling in continuous time
  • Ito calculus
  • Martingale approach to arbitrage theory
  • Girsanov¿s theorem
  • Derivative pricing and hedging in continuous time
  • LIBOR market model
  • Stochastic volatility in continuous time
  • GARCH models for stochastic volatility
  • Maximum likelihood estimation
Learning outcomes
Prerequisites
Further information
Learning material
Equivalences
Studies that include this course
Completion option 1
Course will be lectured on academic year 2024-2025 and 2026-2027 in 3rd and 4th period.
All parts of the completion option are compulsory.

Exam

10.09.2025 10.09.2025
Active in period 1 (1.8.2025–19.10.2025)

Participation in teaching

No scheduled teaching