This dissertation is an examination of methods for computing an option price using a path integral framework. The framework, developed by Chiarella, El-Hassan and Kucera, is based on the Black and Scholes paradigm. The path integral is backward recursive with the payoff known at expiry and has...

This thesis provides some extensions to the existing method of determining the precision of the path of steepest ascent in response surface methodology to cover situations with correlated and heteroscedastic responses, including the important class of generalised linear models. It is shown how...