Importance of T-value in statistics.
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Explain your background and your transition from mathematics to finance. What was the subject of your dissertation? Did it include mathematical modelling? What are the drivers of global equity markets/asset prices? Describe a scenario which you find interesting and do a long/short recommendation accordingly. What would you test concerning inefficiencies or patterns in the market? How?
How do you keep up to date with market trends and developments?
Give an example of a time you worked on a team.
Math IQ questions with graph and so on
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Introduce about yourself What was your responsibilities in previous roles? How do you think about Nielsen's culture?
Explain how you would write a program that takes in an array and target value and computes the position of two values in the array that would add up to the target value (i.e. Two Sum problem)
If a hurricane were to hit Florida in the next week, what industries would be affected and how would that affected associated stock prices? What is the bias-variance tradeoff? If one is overfitting their data, will the bias be high, or low? Will the variance be high, or low? (Don't remember the exact question word-for-word, but I was essentially asked on how to perform the KNN algorithm given some input data) If two people pick a random real number from 0 to 1 (inclusive), what is the probability that the first person will pick a higher number than the second? Describe the pdf of the difference between the two numbers selected. What is the expected difference between the two numbers? (iirc there were a few mental math questions thrown in as well)
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