Statistics category: 3298 books
by Ekkehard Kopp, Jan Malczak, Tomasz Zastawniak
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
Students and instructors alike will benefit from this rigorous, unfussy text, which keeps a clear focus on the basic probabilistic concepts required for an understanding of financial market models, including independence and conditioning. Assuming only some calculus and linear algebra, the text develops...
Stochastic Simulation and Monte Carlo Methods
Mathematical Foundations of Stochastic Simulation
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2013
In various scientific and industrial fields, stochastic simulations are taking on a new importance. This is due to the increasing power of computers and practitioners’ aim to simulate more and more complex systems, and thus use random parameters as well as random noises to model the parametric uncertainties...
An Introduction to Mathematical Finance with Applications
Understanding and Building Financial Intuition
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
This textbook aims to fill the gap between those that offer a theoretical treatment without many applications and those that present and apply formulas without appropriately deriving them. The balance achieved will give readers a fundamental understanding of key financial ideas and tools that...
by Marius Hofert, Ivan Kojadinovic, Martin Mächler
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2019
This book introduces the main theoretical findings related to copulas and shows how statistical modeling of multivariate continuous distributions using copulas can be carried out in the R statistical environment with the package copula (among others).
Copulas are multivariate distribution...
Copulae in Mathematical and Quantitative Finance
Proceedings of the Workshop Held in Cracow, 10-11 July 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2013
Copulas are mathematical objects that fully capture the dependence structure among random variables and hence offer great flexibility in building multivariate stochastic models. Since their introduction in the early 1950s, copulas have gained considerable popularity in several fields of applied mathematics,...
by Alexandre Brouste
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Finance and insurance companies are facing a wide range of parametric statistical problems. Statistical experiments generated by a sample of independent and identically distributed random variables are frequent and well understood, especially those consisting of probability measures of an exponential...
by Hiroshi Kunita
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
This monograph presents a modern treatment of (1) stochastic differential equations and (2) diffusion and jump-diffusion processes. The simultaneous treatment of diffusion processes and jump processes in this book is unique: Each chapter starts from continuous processes and then proceeds to processes...
La disciplina de emprender
24 pasos para lanzar una startup exitosa
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 9, 2015
¿Emprendedor se nace o se hace? Si eres de los que piensan que hay que nacer con un gen creativo, este libro te hará pensar de forma diferente. Emprender es un arte y se puede aprender. Los que han triunfado no nacieron con algo distinto a ti; lo cierto es que muchos de los mejores emprendedores...
Weapons of Math Destruction
How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
**Longlisted for the National Book Award
New York Times Bestseller
A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life — and threaten to rip apart our social fabric**
We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect...
The Signal and the Noise
Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2012
"One of the more momentous books of the decade."—The New York Times Book Review
Nate Silver built an innovative system for predicting baseball performance, predicted the 2008 election within a hair’s breadth, and became a national sensation as a blogger—all by the time he was...
Fooled by Randomness
The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s landmark Incerto series, an investigation of opacity, luck, uncertainty, probability, human error, risk, and decision-making in a world we don’t understand. The other books in the series are The Black Swan, Antifragile, Skin...
by Author Encoe
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2011
The best strategies for winning the pick 3 and pick 4 lottery.
Rick Perry and His Eggheads
Inside the Brainiest Political Operation in America, A Sneak Preview from The Victory Lab
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
A fascinating, never-before-reported look into how Rick Perry, in his 2006 reelection campaign in Texas, had academics conduct real-time experiments to study what makes people vote--revealing a new side of a major politician and a game-changing trend in American politics.
Despite his folksy...
Predictive Analytics: Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Excel
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Predictive Analytics: Microsoft® Excel Excel predictive analytics for serious data crunchers! The movie Moneyball made predictive analytics famous: Now you can apply the same techniques to help your business win. You don’t need multimillion-dollar software: All the tools you need are available...