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  • Statistical Methods and Applications in Insurance and Finance

    CIMPA School, Marrakech and Kelaat M’gouna, Morocco, April 2013

    Edited by M'hamed Eddahbi, El Hassan Essaky, Josep Vives ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book is the outcome of the CIMPA School on Statistical Methods and Applications in Insurance and Finance, held in Marrakech and Kelaat M'gouna (Morocco) in April 2013. It presents two lectures and seven refereed papers from the school, offering the reader important insights into key topics. The first of the lectures, by Frederic Viens, addresses risk management via hedging in discrete and ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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    Darrell Huff runs the gamut of every popularly used type of statistic, probes such things as the sample study, the tabulation method, the interview technique, or the way results are derived from the figures, and points up the countless number of dodges which are used to fool rather than to inform. ... Read more

    $10.29 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

  • The Norm Chronicles

    Stories and Numbers About Danger and Death

    by Michael Blastland, David Spiegelhalter ...
    Is it safer to fly or take the train? How dangerous is skydiving? And is eating that extra sausage going to kill you? We've all heard the statistics for risky activities, but what do they mean in the real world? In The Norm Chronicles, journalist Michael Blastland and risk expert David Spiegelhalter explore these questions through the stories of average Norm and an ingenious measurement called the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Actuaries' Survival Guide

    How to Succeed in One of the Most Desirable Professions

    by Fred Szabo ...
    What would you like to do with your life? What career would allow you to fulfill your dreams of success? If you like mathematics-and the prospect of a highly mobile, international profession-consider becoming an actuary.Szabo’s Actuaries’ Survival Guide, Second Edition explains what actuaries are, what they do, and where they do it. It describes exciting combinations of ideas, techniques, and ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Financial Modeling, Actuarial Valuation and Solvency in Insurance

    by Mario V. Wüthrich, Michael Merz ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    Risk management for financial institutions is one of the key topics the financial industry has to deal with. The present volume is a mathematically rigorous text on solvency modeling. Currently, there are many new developments in this area in the financial and insurance industry (Basel III and Solvency II), but none of these developments provides a fully consistent and comprehensive framework for ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Regression Modeling with Actuarial and Financial Applications

    by Edward W. Frees ...
    Series series International Series on Actuarial Science
    This text gives budding actuaries and financial analysts a foundation in multiple regression and time series. They will learn about these statistical techniques using data on the demand for insurance, lottery sales, foreign exchange rates, and other applications. Although no specific knowledge of risk management or finance is presumed, the approach introduces applications in which statistical ... Read more

    $72.99 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

  • Predictive Modeling Applications in Actuarial Science: Volume 1, Predictive Modeling Techniques

    Edited by Edward W. Frees, Richard A. Derrig, Glenn Meyers ...
    Series series International Series on Actuarial Science
    Predictive modeling involves the use of data to forecast future events. It relies on capturing relationships between explanatory variables and the predicted variables from past occurrences and exploiting this to predict future outcomes. Forecasting future financial events is a core actuarial skill - actuaries routinely apply predictive-modeling techniques in insurance and other risk-management ... Read more

    $81.19 USD

  • Introductory Econometrics

    Using Monte Carlo Simulation with Microsoft Excel

    by Humberto Barreto, Frank Howland ...
    This highly accessible and innovative text with supporting web site uses Excel (R) to teach the core concepts of econometrics without advanced mathematics. It enables students to use Monte Carlo simulations in order to understand the data generating process and sampling distribution. Intelligent repetition of concrete examples effectively conveys the properties of the ordinary least squares (OLS) ... Read more

    $105.79 USD

  • Real Options Illustrated

    by Linda Peters ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book explains the standard Real Options Analysis (ROA) literature in a straightforward, step by step manner without the use of complex mathematics. A lot of ROA literature is described through partial differential equations, probability density functions and simulation techniques, all of which may be unconvincing in the applicable qualities ROA possesses. Using this book, the reader will have ... Read more

    $58.49 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