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The Logic of Life
The Rational Economics of an Irrational World
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008
Life sometimes seems illogical. Individuals do strange things: take drugs, have unprotected sex, mug each other. Love seems irrational, and so does divorce. On a larger scale, life seems no fairer or easier to fathom: Why do some neighborhoods thrive and others become ghettos? Why is racism so persistent?...
by Shyamala Nemana
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
This is a Summer Training report for MBA students for refernce and study.
Trading Bases
How a Wall Street Trader Made a Fortune Betting on Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
An ex–Wall Street trader improved on Moneyball’s famed sabermetrics and beat the Vegas odds with his own betting methods. Here is the story of how Joe Peta turned fantasy baseball into a dream come true.
Joe Peta turned his back on his Wall Street trading career to pursue an ingenious—and...
by Stuart A. Klugman, Harry H. Panjer, Gordon E. Willmot
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
Student Solutions Manual to Accompany Loss Models: From Data to Decisions, Fourth Edition. This volume is organised around the principle that much of actuarial science consists of the construction and analysis of mathematical models which describe the process by which funds flow into and out of an insurance system.
Yield Curve Modeling and Forecasting
The Dynamic Nelson-Siegel Approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Understanding the dynamic evolution of the yield curve is critical to many financial tasks, including pricing financial assets and their derivatives, managing financial risk, allocating portfolios, structuring fiscal debt, conducting monetary policy, and valuing capital goods. Unfortunately, most...
by Roberto Serrano, Allan M. Feldman
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
This book provides a concise treatment of the core concepts of microeconomic theory at the intermediate level with calculus integrated into the text. The authors, Roberto Serrano and Allan M. Feldman, start with consumer theory and then discuss preferences and utility, budget constraints, the consumer's...
Reliability Assessments
Concepts, Models, and Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2017
This book provides engineers and scientists with a single source introduction to the concepts, models, and case studies for making credible reliability assessments. It satisfies the need for thorough discussions of several fundamental subjects.
Section I contains a comprehensive overview of...
Simple Rules
How to Thrive in a Complex World
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
HOW SIMPLICITY TRUMPS COMPLEXITY IN NATURE, BUSINESS, AND LIFE
Complexity surrounds us. We have too much email, juggle multiple remotes, and hack through thickets of regulations from phone contracts to health plans. But complexity isn’t destiny. Sull and Eisenhardt argue there’s a better...
The Improbability Principle
Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
In The Improbability Principle, the renowned statistician David J. Hand argues that extraordinarily rare events are anything but. In fact, they're commonplace. Not only that, we should all expect to experience a miracle roughly once every month.
But Hand is no believer in superstitions, prophecies,...
by Ton J. Cleophas, Aeilko H. Zwinderman
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2015
The current book is the first publication of a complete overview of machine learning methodologies for the medical and health sector. It was written as a training companion and as a must-read, not only for physicians and students, but also for any one involved in the process and progress of health...
Giants vs. Dodgers
The Coast-to-Coast History of the Rivalry Heard ?Round the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Games between the Dodgers and Giants are never just another day at the ballpark. Dating back to the late nineteenth century-when the teams embodied the competitive spirit of rival metropolises of New York and Brooklyn-the Giants-Dodgers rivalry gained intensity throughout the early twentieth century....
You're the Umpire
152 Scenarios to Test Your Baseball Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Do you think you have what it takes to be a Major League umpire? Well, now you can test your knowledge of the game with Wayne Stewart’s You’re the Umpire.
Divided into three sections, this unusual handbook, now in its second edition, offers "Routine Calls," which deal with scenarios and...
Miracle Year 1969
Amazing Mets and Super Jets
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2016
Sports fans in New York will always remember the incredible events of 1969. It was the year that two of the city’s underdog teams would rise above all expectations to be crowned world champions.
On January 12, 1969, the underdog New York Jets faced the heavily-favored Baltimore Colts in Super...
The 3,000 Hit Club
Stories of Baseball's Greatest Hitters
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Meet the members of the most exclusive club in Major League Baseball. There is no award, there are no ceremonies, but nothing can compare to the pride and glory felt by a player as he hits that miracle milestone: 3,000. Since Cap Anson first reached the mark in 1897, only twenty-eight baseball players...