Given the explosion of interest in mathematical methods for solving problems in finance and trading, a great deal of research and development is taking place in universities, large brokerage firms, and in the supporting trading software industry. Mathematical advances have been made both...

The field of financial econometrics has exploded over the last decade. This book represents an integration of theory, methods, and examples using the S-PLUS statistical modeling language and the S+FinMetrics module to facilitate the practice of financial econometrics. This is the first book to...

Applied Quantitative Finance presents solutions, theoretical developments and method proliferation for many practical problems in quantitative finance. The combination of practice and theory supported by computational tools is reflected in the selection of topics as well as in a finely tuned...

In many areas of finance and stochastics, significant advances have been made since this field of research was opened by Black, Scholes and Merton in 1973. Advances in Finance and Stochastics contains a collection of original articles by a number of highly distinguished authors on research...

This book provides a set of case studies that can supplement any business statistics text. Developed at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, it is used for the beginning statistics course for MBA students. The casebook provides the latest in data analysis techniques, and...

This book contains 17 articles by leading experts on Banach Spaces, Vector Lattices, Vector Measures, Chaos, Fuzzy Measures and Mathematical Economics. Some of these articles are state-of-the-art surveys and others present ongoing research on the frontiers of the above subjects. The book...

Arthur Vogt has devoted a great deal of his scientific efforts to both person and work of Irving Fisher. This book, written with Jànos Barta, gives an excellent impression of Fisher's great contributions to the theory of the price index on the one hand. On the other hand, it continues Fisher's...

The mathematical programming approach called `goal programming' or GP has been in existence for over three decades. GP has been used to optimize decision making from Christmas trees to allocating the resources of a whole nation's agricultural industry. This book reviews the body of knowledge on...

This volume is a collection of selected papers which reflects the highlights of the 10th International Multiple Criteria Decision Making conference held in Taipei. The papers cover a wide range of topics and applications in which MCDM techniques have been used. The participants of the conference...

This volume comprises the invited papers at the Fifth Purdue Symposium on Statistical Decision Theory and Related Topics. The series of conferences is now well-established as presenting a superb state-of-the-art review of the subject. These papers are grouped into six parts which each give a...