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S&P Quantitative Analytics Intern Interview (student candidate)

Posted Jul 20, 2011

Accepted Offer – Interviewed in New York, NY Oct 2010 – Reviewed Jul 20, 2011

Interview Details – phone reception not so good. they asked some statistical question, ie. comparison between normal distribution and student t distribution, ANOVA (analysis of variance), linear regression (like what does r square stand for, how it is calculated, what are the components of sum of squares, etc). also they asked what statistical software programs I have used, like Matlab, SAS and describe the command I used to manipulate data

Interview Question – Give the command you will put to do simple linear regression in SAS.   Answer Question

Other Details - I applied through campus recruiting and the process took 2 weeks.

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