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The Application of Quantitative Finance in Sports Betting
I notice that on the surface, there are some similarities between quantitative sports betting and quantitative finance. Both has the concept of arbitaging etc.
What are the applications of ...
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Topological methods in finance
Recently a promising start-up (Ayasdi) has made headlines. They are a spin-off of the Applied and Computational Algebraic Topology group of Stanford University (ComTop). What they basically do is ...
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What are some examples of Compound Poisson processes in insurance?
I'm writing the Bachelor thesis but I need some information. I need to find some practical examples and applications of the Compound Poisson Process in insurance. Does anyone have any good examples?
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How do practitioners use the Malliavin calculus (if at all)?
This question is inspired by the remark due to Vladimir Piterbarg made in a related thread on Wilmott back in 2004:
Not to be a party-pooper, but Malliavin calculus is essentially useless in ...
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how to choose a financial spread betting provider for ease of control with customers' programs [closed]
I want to use my quantitative finance programs for real world trades on financial spreads; forex, indices, stocks etc. The features presented by many providers are for the human interaction side. ...
