The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of asthma Self Management Training on the health status and resource use of patients with chronic asthma. The study consisted of a randomized control design of chronic asthmatic patients in a tertiary care center in India. The intervention group...

We present four new methods for approximating the drift in the LIBOR market model when performing very long steps. These are compared with a variety of existing methods, including PPR, Glasserman-Zhao and predictor-corrector. We find that two of them, which use correlation adjustments to better...

We study the simulation of range accrual coupons when valuing callable range accruals in the displaced-diffusion LIBOR market model (DDLMM). We introduce a number of new improvements that lead to significant efficiency improvements, and explain how to apply the adjoint-improved pathwise method...