, Acknowledgments. Element Key. Introduction. Getting a Feel for Your Own Investments. PART 1: LOOKING AT INVESTMENT DATA. Chapter 1: Getting Good Data. Chapter 2: Identify Visual Correlations. PART 2: QUANTITATIVE DATA APPLICATIONS. Chapter 3: Types of Data. Chapter 4: Probability. Chapter 5: Plots and Distributions. Chapter 6: Testing Variables Data. Chapter 7: Testing Proportional Data. PART 3: QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION OF STOCKS, THE MARKET, AND INVESTING PRACTICES. Chapter 8: Is a Stock or the Stock Market Overpriced? Chapter 9: Using Investment Analysis to Estimate When an Economic Bubble Will Break. Chapter 10: The U.S.Consumer Has Been Reducing Savings, Drawing Out Home Equity, and Increasing Debt. So, Should an Investor Be in the Stock Market? PART 4: SPECIFIC ANALYSIS ISSUES RELATED TO RETIREMENT INVESTING. Chapter 11: Quick Use Baseline Retirement Numbers. Chapter 12: Adjustments for a Pension, a Lower Savings Level, or a Reduced Retirement Budget. Chapter 13: Assumptions/Rationale in Savings Calculations. Appendix. Understanding Logarithmic Charts. Glossary. Index., A straightforward and accessible guide to the discipline of investment analysis
Getting Started in Investment Analysis is an approachable introduction to this important topic. It quickly teaches readers how to make overall judgments on investment data without having to do complicated statistical analysis.
