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  • An Introduction to Exotic Option Pricing

    by Peter Buchen ...
    In an easy-to-understand, nontechnical yet mathematically elegant manner, An Introduction to Exotic Option Pricing shows how to price exotic options, including complex ones, without performing complicated integrations or formally solving partial differential equations (PDEs). The author incorporates much of his own unpublished work, including ideas ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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    Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day

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    "Human beings are a superstitious lot; we see patterns everywhere. But as Hand makes clear in this enlightening book, it all comes down to the math." —Jennifer Ouellette, The New York Times Book ReviewA Success Magazine Best Book of the YearIn The Improbability Principle, the renowned statistician David J. Hand argues that extraordinarily rare events are anythi... ... Read more

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  • The Perfect Bet

    How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling

    by Adam Kucharski ...
    "An elegant and amusing account" of how gambling has been reshaped by the application of science and revealed the truth behind a lucky bet (Wall Street Journal).For the past 500 years, gamblers-led by mathematicians and scientists-have been trying to figure out how to pull the rug out from under Lady Luck. In The Perfect Bet, mathematician and award-winning writer Adam Kucharski tells the ... Read more

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  • Stochastic Calculus for Finance

    by Marek Capiński, Ekkehard Kopp, Janusz Traple ...
    Series series Mastering Mathematical Finance
    This book focuses specifically on the key results in stochastic processes that have become essential for finance practitioners to understand. The authors study the Wiener process and Itô integrals in some detail, with a focus on results needed for the Black–Scholes option pricing model. After developing the required martingale properties of this process, the construction of the integral and the ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Value-Oriented Risk Management of Insurance Companies

    by Marcus Kriele, Jochen Wolf ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    Value- and risk-oriented management is a holistic method of managing businesses. In this book both actuarial methods and methods pertaining to classical internal control and classical risk management are used. Therefore the approach taken is necessarily interdisciplinary. Indeed, there is a new dynamically developing field for actuaries as a result of the emphasis now on the measurement of risk ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • What the Numbers Say

    A Field Guide to Mastering Our Numerical World

    by Derrick Niederman, David Boyum ...
    A decade ago, computer scientist Douglas Hofstadter coined the term innumeracy, which aptly described the widespread ailment of poor quantitative thinking in American society. So, in What the Numbers Say, Derrick Niederman and David Boyum present clear and comprehensible methods to help us process and calculate our way through the world of “data smog” that we live in. Avoiding abstruse ... Read more

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  • Numerical Methods in Finance with C++

    by Maciej J. Capiński, Tomasz Zastawniak ...
    Series series Mastering Mathematical Finance
    Driven by concrete computational problems in quantitative finance, this book provides aspiring quant developers with the numerical techniques and programming skills they need. The authors start from scratch, so the reader does not need any previous experience of C++. Beginning with straightforward option pricing on binomial trees, the book gradually progresses towards more advanced topics, ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Computation and Modelling in Insurance and Finance

    by Erik Bølviken ...
    Series series International Series on Actuarial Science
    Focusing on what actuaries need in practice, this introductory account provides readers with essential tools for handling complex problems and explains how simulation models can be created, used and re-used (with modifications) in related situations. The book begins by outlining the basic tools of modelling and simulation, including a discussion of the Monte Carlo method and its use. Part II deals ... Read more

    $141.89 USD

  • Economic Forecasting and Policy

    by N. Carnot, V. Koen, B. Tissot ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    Economic Forecasting provides a comprehensive overview of macroeconomic forecasting. The focus is first on a wide range of theories as well as empirical methods: business cycle analysis, time series methods, macroeconomic models, medium and long-run projections, fiscal and financial forecasts, and sectoral forecasting. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Statistics: An Introduction: Teach Yourself

    The Easy Way to Learn Stats

    by Alan Graham ...
    Do you need to gain confidence with handling numbers and formulae? Do you want a clear, step-by-step guide to the key concepts and principles of statistics? Nearly all aspects of our lives can be subject to statistical analysis. Statistics: An Introduction shows you how to interpret, analyze and present figures.Assuming minimal knowledge of maths and using examples from a wide variety of everyday ... Read more

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  • Computational Actuarial Science with R

    Edited by Arthur Charpentier ...
    Series series Chapman & Hall/CRC The R Series
    A Hands-On Approach to Understanding and Using Actuarial ModelsComputational Actuarial Science with R provides an introduction to the computational aspects of actuarial science. Using simple R code, the book helps you understand the algorithms involved in actuarial computations. It also covers more advanced topics, such as parallel computing and C/ ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Introduction to Statistical Methods for Financial Models

    by Thomas A Severini ...
    Series series Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science
    This book provides an introduction to the use of statistical concepts and methods to model and analyze financial data. The ten chapters of the book fall naturally into three sections. Chapters 1 to 3 cover some basic concepts of finance, focusing on the properties of returns on an asset. Chapters 4 through 6 cover aspects of portfolio theory and the methods of estimation needed to implement that ... Read more

    $68.99 USD