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context in which statistical inference is called for. In the financial context, Bayesian methods have been applied to portfolio optimization (Klein and Bawa, 1977; Shanken, 1987;Kandel, McCulloch, and Stambaugh, 1995) and tests of the Arbitrage Pricing Theory (McCulloch and Rossi, 1991) and o[r]
Radioactive nuclei have found many uses in science and medicine. Figure 14 shows an image produced when a small amount ofthe isotope iron-59 was injected into a patient’s bloodstream. Theimage allows doctors to study the circulation of the patient’s blood.Figure 14 The radiation released by a[r]
CHAPTER 1 Financial Risk in a Crisis-Prone World CHAPTER 2 Market Risk Basics CHAPTER 3 Value-at-Risk CHAPTER 4 Nonlinear Risks and the Treatment of Bonds and Options CHAPTER 5 Portfolio VaR for Market Risk CHAPTER 6 Credit and Counterparty Risk CHAPTER 7 Spread Risk[r]
CHAPTER 1 What Is Economics? 1 CHAPTER 2 The Economic Problem 29 PART TWO HOW MARKETS WORK 55 CHAPTER 3 Demand and Supply 55 CHAPTER 4 Elasticity 83 CHAPTER 5 Efficiency and Equity 105 CHAPTER 6 Government Actions in Markets 127 CHAPTER 7 Global Markets in Action 151 PART THREE HOUSEHOLDS’ CHOICES 1[r]
of OPEC, 431 n The Price Wars of Christmas, 43815: Any Color, So Long as It’s Black, 449 n The Housing Bust and the Demise of the 6%Commission, 454 n NEW: The Perfume Industry: Leading Customers by the Nose, 45916: NEW: How Much Does Your Electricity Really Cost?, 471 n [r]
PART I. INTRODUCTION TO THE SAT CHEMISTRY TEST All About the SAT Chemistry Test 3 How to Use This Book 9 Strategies for Top Scores 10 PART II. DIAGNOSTIC TEST Diagnostic Test 17 Answers and Explanations to Diagnostic Test 29 PART III. CHEMISTRY TOPIC REVIEW Chapter 1 Matter and En[r]
Chapter 5 Therapeutic massage and bodywork applications. This chapter presents the following content: Areas of competence, effects of massage, methods and techniques of massage, massage techniques and strokes, standard precautions and procedures.
HAPTER 1 Evolution of Relationships with CustomersCHAPTER 2 The Thinking behind Customer RelationshipsCHAPTER 3 Customer Relationships: Basic Building Blocks of IDIC and TrustCHAPTER 4 Identifying CustomersCHAPTER 5 Differentiating Customers: Some Customers Are Worth More than OthersCHAPTER 6 Differ[r]
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■■■New! Updated Marketing Research Insights. To help illustrate concepts we discuss inthe text or to introduce students to some unique application being used in practice, weprovide Marketing Research Insights throughout the book. Virtually all of these featuresare new and reflect current issu[r]
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at where we have been.In 1952 Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel but declined because hethought he was too naive in politics. Perhaps his real reason, according to Stephen W.Hawking (A Brief History of Time), was different. To quote Einstein, "Equations are moreimport[r]
... REVIEW 2.1 Economics of Religion 2.2 Intergenerational Transmission and Other Determinants of CHAPTER Religiosity 12 2.3 Determinants of Patience 19 2.4 Intergenerational Transmission of Preferences... participation, the determinants of religiosity, the influence of religion on economic decision[r]
of the world?Practice It!Read the excerpt below andmake connections to your own knowledge and experience.Text-to-self:What happens to your skinwhen you are in the Sun?Have you ever gotten asunburn on a cloudy day?Text-to-text:What have you readabout radiation inother chapters? Whichlayer o[r]