PCRA: Companion to Portfolio Construction and Risk Analysis

A collection of functions and data sets that support teaching a quantitative finance MS level course on Portfolio Construction and Risk Analysis, and the writing of a textbook for such a course. The package is unique in providing several real-world data sets that may be used for problem assignments and student projects. The data sets include cross-sections of stock data from the Center for Research on Security Prices, LLC (CRSP), corresponding factor exposures data from S&P Global, and several SP500 data sets.

Package details

AuthorDoug Martin [cre, aut], Alexios Galanos [ctb], Kirk Li [aut, ctb], Jon Spinney [ctb], Thomas Philips [ctb]
MaintainerDoug Martin <martinrd3d@gmail.com>
LicenseGPL-2
Version1.2
Package repositoryView on CRAN
Installation Install the latest version of this package by entering the following in R:
install.packages("PCRA")

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PCRA documentation built on Aug. 30, 2023, 9:09 a.m.