
  i think you're question is too general but Eric Zivot's S+Finmetrics 
text and Peter Kennedy's econometrics text , the title of which escapes 
me but maybe it's "Introductory Econometrics", are two VERY DIFFERENT 
kinds of what I would think of as "connect the dots" books that you 
might like ?


On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 10:26 PM, Michael wrote:

> I have read these books already... still searching for better books 
> ...

On Sat, Nov 8, 2008 at 7:49 PM, Spencer Graves <spencer.graves@pdf.com 
<mailto:spencer.graves@pdf.com>   <mailto:spencer.graves@pdf.com> > 
wrote:
>      One book is Ruey Tsay (2005)  Analysis of Financial Time Series, 
> 2nd ed.
> (Wiley).  The R package "FinTS" provides script files to that show how 
> to
> work some of the example in the book.
>      Try also "RSiteSearch" (www.r-project.org -> search PLUS the
> "RSiteSearch" function in R) for more options, as Brian Peterson 
> suggested.
>      Good Luck.     Spencer Graves
>
> Brian G. Peterson wrote:
>>
>> Michael wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Please recommend good books for the following three categories. (I 
>>> am
>>> aim at finance, macroeconomics, trading and business applications).
>>>
>>> (1) statistical (financial) data analysis;
>>> (2) time series;
>>> (3) econometrics.
>>>
>>> More specifically, I am looking for the following two types of 
>>> books:
>>>
>>> (1) Books that provide big pictures and intuitions and books that
>>> connect dots...
>>>
>>> For example, there are lots of statistics books(e.g. regression,
>>> etc.), time series, and econometrics books, many of them are quite
>>> mathematical. I am myself from a quantitative background so I don't
>>> have problem understanding the math, however I am looking for
>>> resources that provide big pictures and intuitions and books that
>>> connect dots together, books that compare the differences and
>>> similarities and books that talks about why and how (e.g. why ARMA,
>>> why "log", why GARCH, etc. ) and books talk about when things get
>>> wrong and why and how to fix...
>>>
>>> (2) Books with meaningful finance, macroeconomics, trading and
>>> business applications.
>>
>> This topic, in almost exactly the same request, comes up frequently 
>> on
>> this list.  I suggest that you search the list archives.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>     - Brian
>>
>

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