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Literature in Quantitative Finance [duplicate]

I'm now reading a book by B. Mandelbrot about fractals and finance. It's very interesting to see a different approach from BS—the different step made by the author and how he dealt with usual ...
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Kalman Filter Equity Example

I am looking out for some material where I can study about Kalman Filter applied to Equity using Excel or R?
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What benefits are there to employing agile software development methodologies for quants?

Perusing the other SE network sites, particularly Programmers, I often find vigorous support for various agile software development methodologies, particularly the various values known as Extreme ...
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Financial Products Markup Language

I am asked to map financial products into XML. It can be in any format. I know there is an open specification FPML. Is that worth to adopt FPML rather than my own standards? Also, how common FPML is ...
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What is a Quant

In the interest of having "canonical questions" on this site ... What is a Quant?