The Department of Statistics & Applied Probability and the Center for Financial Mathematics and Actuarial Research are partnering with Hull Tactical to run a data science contest on predicting S&P500 returns. Undergraduate and Masters students may participate in teams of up to 4 members, to compete for prizes of up to $2500 in two categories: (i) Best Prediction; (ii) Most Creative. Contest is open exclusively to UCSB students and runs during February 15 -- May 8, 2019.



More details, contest rules and information regarding contestant resources are at: www.pstat.ucsb.edu/erpcontest