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R for Entrepreneurial Finance

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  R From completing Duke University's  Entrepreneurial Finance: Strategy and Innovation Specialization  on Coursera, I learned the basics of R and applied it to financial statistics. Using R to simulate generate ten one-day outcomes for a 10-day holding period 📖 Upgrades: R interface, R statistical analysis using packages, financial risk/return calcs 💻 Platforms:          RStudio, Coursera ⏰ Est. Time Req.: 15.5 hrs (5.5 class+ 10 troubleshooting)  Background R came into my life when I enrolled in the Coursera specialization offered by Duke University,  Entrepreneurial Finance: Strategy and Innovation Specialization , in March 2020. The last course in the Specialization is  Financial Risk Management with R , which walks a student through using R programming to calculate the return of a stock portfolio as well as quantify the market risk of that portfolio. I had just finished another course on financial accounting and I wanted to educate myself further on financial strate