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I am currently an undergraduate sophomore taking a class in basic financial modeling. I am trying to develop a mortgage prepayment model. I plan on gathering historical prepayment statistics through a Bloomberg terminal. I have taken only one statistics course, so my knowledge is fairly limited. I plan on using a regression model to describe how mortgage prepayments change. Will this work ok? Is there some other data that Bloomberg provides that I can add to my regression? Is there another type of model that may be more appropriate and is easy for an undergraduate to understand?

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This site is for professional quants. Your question is off-topic, not because you're an undergraduate, but because it's not relevant to professionals. Go to the library and get a book on valuing MBS and use that to start learning about prepayment drivers. – Joshua Ulrich Dec 11 '12 at 15:43

closed as off topic by Alexey Kalmykov, Joshua Ulrich, Bob Jansen, chrisaycock♦ Dec 12 '12 at 3:36

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