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Quantitative Business Modeling
Jack R. Meredith , Scott M. Shafer , and Efraim Turban Manufacturer: South-Western College Pub ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 032401600X |
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Rather than giving instruction in models and solving problems, this textbook focuses on the process of modeling and the use of models in analyzing various managerial situations. The process of modeling is highly relevant to all business disciplines and is a critical skill for all professionals. The emphasis of this text will be on the integration and development of modeling skills including problem recognition, data collection, model formulation, analysis, and communicating and implementing the results.
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Handbook of Quantitative Supply Chain Analysis: Modeling in the E-Business Era (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science)
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
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ASIN: 1402079524 |
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Over the past two decades, not only has supply chain analysis become a strategic focus of leading firms, it has also spawned an impressive array of research that brings together diverse research communities. Adding to this diversity and intellectual energy is the emergence of E-Business. E-Business creates new competitive dimensions that are fast-paced, ever-changing, and risk-prone, dimensions where innovation, speed, and technological savvy often define success. Most importantly, E-Business challenges the premises and expands the scope of supply chain analysis. The Handbook is a comprehensive research reference that is essential for anyone interested in conducting research in supply chain. Unique features include:
-A focus on the intersection of quantitative supply chain analysis and E-Business,
-Unlike other edited volumes in the supply chain area, this is a handbook rather than a collection of research papers. Each chapter was written by one or more leading researchers in the area. These authors were invited on the basis of their scholarly expertise and unique insights in a particular sub-area,
-As much attention is given to looking back as to looking forward. Most chapters discuss at length future research needs and research directions from both theoretical and practical perspectives,
-Most chapters describe in detail the quantitative models used for analysis and the theoretical underpinnings; many examples and case studies are provided to demonstrate how the models and the theoretical insights are relevant to real situations,
-Coverage of most state-of-the-art business practices in supply chain management.
Audience: This volume is suitable for researchers, faculty, graduate students, and practitioners in the following areas: supply chain management, operations research, management science, decision science, industrial engineering, operations management, civil engineering/transportation, logistics management, risk management, applied mathematics, economics, computer science, industrial management, and other related areas.
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A Benchmark Approach to Quantitative Finance (Springer Finance)
Eckhard Platen , and David Heath Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 3540262121 |
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The benchmark approach provides a general framework for financial market modeling, which extends beyond the standard risk-neutral pricing theory. It permits a unified treatment of portfolio optimization, derivative pricing, integrated risk management and insurance risk modeling. The existence of an equivalent risk-neutral pricing measure is not required. Instead, it leads to pricing formulae with respect to the real-world probability measure. This yields important modeling freedom which turns out to be necessary for the derivation of realistic, parsimonious market models. The first part of the book describes the necessary tools from probability theory, statistics, stochastic calculus and the theory of stochastic differential equations with jumps. The second part is devoted to financial modeling by the benchmark approach. Various quantitative methods for the real-world pricing and hedging of derivatives are explained. The general framework is used to provide an understanding of the nature of stochastic volatility. The book is intended for a wide audience that includes quantitative analysts, postgraduate students and practitioners in finance, economics and insurance. It aims to be a self-contained, accessible but mathematically rigorous introduction to quantitative finance for readers that have a reasonable mathematical or quantitative background. Finally, the book should stimulate interest in the benchmark approach by describing some of its power and wide applicability.
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Quantitative Health Risk Analysis Methods: Modeling the Human Health Impacts of Antibiotics Used in Food Animals (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science)
Jr., Louis Anthony Cox Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0387259090 |
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Worldwide health care problems are a hot, growing application in Operations Research. Along with a quickly growing field is an active community of Medical OR and Risk Analysis researchers. Tony Cox is one of the leading research scholars in the field of Risk Heath Risk. His work on health risk modeling will be synthesized along with the work of others on modeling human health risks. The monograph will cover a range of modeling and methodological issues including environmental, experimental, simulation, and mathematical modeling approaches.
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Quantitative Modeling of Derivative Securities: From Theory To Practice
Marco Avellaneda , and Peter Laurence Manufacturer: Chapman & Hall/CRC ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 1584880317 |
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Quantitative Modeling of Derivative Securities demonstrates how to take the basic ideas of arbitrage theory and apply them - in a very concrete way - to the design and analysis of financial products. Based primarily (but not exclusively) on the analysis of derivatives, the book emphasizes relative-value and hedging ideas applied to different financial instruments. Using a "financial engineering approach," the theory is developed progressively, focusing on specific aspects of pricing and hedging and with problems that the technical analyst or trader has to consider in practice. More than just an introductory text, the reader who has mastered the contents of this one book will have breached the gap separating the novice from the technical and research literature.
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A useful introduction to modeling of derivatives.......2002-12-02
A useful introduction to modeling of derivatives.......2002-12-02
Very good treatment of mathematical finance minus the typos.......2002-04-04
Avellaneda's worse performance.......2000-03-23
I wish I could send the book back........2000-03-23
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QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS, DERIVATIVES MODELING, AND TRADING STRATEGIES: IN THE PRESENCE OF COUNTERPARTY CREDIT RISK FOR THE FIXED-INCOME MARKET
Yi Tang , and Bin Li Manufacturer: World Scientific Publishing ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 9810240791 |
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This book addresses selected practical applications and recent developments in the areas of quantitative financial modeling in derivatives instruments, some of which are from the authors own research and practice.
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A Course in Credibility Theory and its Applications (Universitext)
Hans Bühlmann , and Alois Gisler Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
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ASIN: 3540257535 |
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The book is aimed at teachers and students as well as practising experts in the financial area, in particular at actuaries in the field of property-casualty insurance, life insurance, reinsurance and insurance supervision. Persons working in the wider world of finance will also find many relevant ideas and examples even though credibility methods have not yet been widely applied here.
The book covers the subject of Credibility Theory extensively and includes most aspects of this topic from the simplest case to the most general dynamic model. Credibility is a lifeless topic if it is not linked closely to practical applications. The book therefore treats explicitly the tasks which the actuary encounters in his daily work such as estimation of loss ratios, claim frequencies and claim sizes.
This book deserves a place on the bookshelf of every actuary and mathematician who works, teaches or does research in the area of insurance and finance.
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Logit Modeling: Practical Applications (Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences)
Alfred DeMaris Manufacturer: Sage Publications, Inc ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0803943776 |
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Logit Modeling represents a breakthrough for researchers because it offers ways for more efficient estimation of models with multiple categorical variables, especially when the measurement assumptions for classical multiple regression fail to be met. Taking an applied approach, DeMaris begins by describing the logit model in the context of the general loglinear model, moving its application from two-way to multidimensional tables. He then divides the rest of the book between an examination of the varieties of logit models for contingency tables and logistic regression. Throughout his coverage of both these major areas, DeMaris emphasizes interpretation of results. The book concludes with an extension of logistic regression to dependent variables with more than two categories. Logit Modeling is the perfect answer for those seeking a comprehensive guide for the entire range of logit models.
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Managerial Spreadsheet Modeling and Analysis (Irwin Series in Quantitative Methods and Management Science.)
Rick Hesse Manufacturer: Richard D Irwin ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0256215308 |
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This book is meant to give a good working knowledge of mathematical techniques available to model, solve and analyze real-world problems on spreadsheets that may arise in a work environment. Using this approach students have an easier time seeing the relevance of management science in the business world. The electronic spreadsheet has become the standard tool used to build models and analyze quantitative problems. This book incorporates all of the traditional management science topics taught today, but uses an electronic spreadsheet as a visual platform. The approach is centered on problem solving rather than learning mathematics or theory. It emphasizes both problem finding and formulation as managerial modeling and then uses the spreadsheet to layout the model on templates provided to the student to solve the problem. Students will then lead to the analysis of the results by performing "what-if" analysis-which is uniquely well matched to the spreadsheet approach. This allows them to get a feel for each type of model and what it can accomplish without getting confused with the math.Customer Reviews:
The firepower of Excel unleashed for business decisionmaking.......2000-08-26
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Market Research and Modeling: Progress and Prospects: A Tribute to Paul E. Green (International Series in Quantitative Marketing)
Manufacturer: Springer ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0387243089 |
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Marketing Research and Modeling addresses state of the art developments including new techniques and methodologies by leading experts in marketing and marketing research. This work emphasizes new developments in Bayesian Decision Analysis, Multivariate Analysis, Multidimensional Scaling, Conjoint Analysis, Applications of Conjoint and MDS technique, Data Mining, Cluster Analysis, and Neural Networks.Books:
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