Stochastic Simulation and Applications in Finance with MATLAB Programs
| Year of publication: |
2011
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| Authors: | Huynh, Huu Tue |
| Other Persons: | Lai, Van Son (contributor) ; Soumaré, Issouf (contributor) |
| Publisher: |
Hoboken : John Wiley & Sons |
| Subject: | Simulation | Stochastischer Prozess | Stochastic process | Finanzmathematik | Mathematical finance |
| Description of contents: | Table of Contents [gbv.de] |
| Extent: | Online-Ressource (356 p.) |
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| Series: | The Wiley Finance Series ; v.633 The Wiley Finance Ser ; v.633 |
| Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record Stochastic Simulation and Applications in Finance with MATLAB® Programs; Contents; Preface; 1 Introduction to Probability; 1.1 Intuitive Explanation; 1.1.1 Frequencies; 1.1.2 Number of Favorable Cases Over The Total Number of Cases; 1.2 Axiomatic Definition; 1.2.1 Random Experiment; 1.2.2 Event; 1.2.3 Algebra of Events; 1.2.4 Probability Axioms; 1.2.5 Conditional Probabilities; 1.2.6 Independent Events; 2 Introduction to Random Variables; 2.1 Random Variables; 2.1.1 Cumulative Distribution Function; 2.1.2 Probability Density Function 2.1.3 Mean, Variance and Higher Moments of a Random Variable2.1.4 Characteristic Function of a Random Variable; 2.2 Random vectors; 2.2.1 Cumulative Distribution Function of a Random Vector; 2.2.2 Probability Density Function of a Random Vector; 2.2.3 Marginal Distribution of a Random Vector; 2.2.4 Conditional Distribution of a Random Vector; 2.2.5 Mean, Variance and Higher Moments of a Random Vector; 2.2.6 Characteristic Function of a Random Vector; 2.3 Transformation of Random Variables; 2.4 Transformation of Random Vectors 2.5 Approximation of the Standard Normal Cumulative Distribution Function3 Random Sequences; 3.1 Sum of Independent Random Variables; 3.2 Law of Large Numbers; 3.3 Central Limit Theorem; 3.4 Convergence of Sequences of Random Variables; 3.4.1 Sure Convergence; 3.4.2 Almost Sure Convergence; 3.4.3 Convergence in Probability; 3.4.4 Convergence in Quadratic Mean; 4 Introduction to Computer Simulation of Random Variables; 4.1 Uniform Random Variable Generator; 4.2 Generating Discrete Random Variables; 4.2.1 Finite Discrete Random Variables 4.2.2 Infinite Discrete Random Variables: Poisson Distribution4.3 Simulation of Continuous Random Variables; 4.3.1 Cauchy Distribution; 4.3.2 Exponential Law; 4.3.3 Rayleigh Random Variable; 4.3.4 Gaussian Distribution; 4.4 Simulation of Random Vectors; 4.4.1 Case of a Two-Dimensional Random Vector; 4.4.2 Cholesky Decomposition of the Variance-Covariance Matrix; 4.4.3 Eigenvalue Decomposition of the Variance-Covariance Matrix; 4.4.4 Simulation of a Gaussian Random Vector with MATLAB; 4.5 Acceptance-Rejection Method; 4.6 Markov Chain Monte Carlo Method (MCMC) 4.6.1 Definition of a Markov Process4.6.2 Description of the MCMC Technique; 5 Foundations of Monte Carlo Simulations; 5.1 Basic Idea; 5.2 Introduction to the Concept of Precision; 5.3 Quality of Monte Carlo Simulations Results; 5.4 Improvement of the Quality of Monte Carlo Simulations or Variance Reduction Techniques; 5.4.1 Quadratic Resampling; 5.4.2 Reduction of the Number of Simulations Using Antithetic Variables; 5.4.3 Reduction of the Number of Simulations Using Control Variates; 5.4.4 Importance Sampling; 5.5 Application Cases of Random Variables Simulations 5.5.1 Application Case: Generation of Random Variables as a Function of the Number of Simulations |
| ISBN: | 978-0-470-72538-2 ; 978-0-470-72213-8 ; 978-0-470-72538-2 |
| Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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