Probability and Statistics for Finance The Frank J. Fabozzi Series Fixed Income Securities, Second Edition by Frank J. Fabozzi Focus on Value: A Corporate and Investor Guide to Wealth Creation by James L. Grant and James A. Abate Handbook of Global Fixed Income Calculations by Dragomir Krgin Managing a Corporate Bond Portfolio by Leland E. Crabbe and Frank J. Fabozzi Real Options and Option-Embedded Securities by William T. Moore Capital Budgeting: Theory and Practice by Pamela P. Peterson and
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examines the principles of probability and of descriptive and inferential statistics. Topics include probability concepts, measures of central tendency, normal distributions, and sampling techniques. The application of these principles to simple hypothesis testing methods and to confidence intervals is also covered. The application of these topics in solving problems encountered in personal and professional settings is also discussed. INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS Required Resources ALEKS Access Code (bundled
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al. (2009) was designed to test the hypothesis that the Social Participation Questionnaire (SPQ) is able to distinguish between students with and without disabilities. The questionnaire, developed in 2008 by Koster et al. (as cited in Koster et al., 2009), was designed “for teachers to assess the social participation of pupils with special needs in regular primary education” (Koster, 2009, p. 213). Keywords: social participation, inclusive education, Testing the Discriminating Power of a Social
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Secondly this study investigates the presence of the so-called Moving Calendar anomaly, the “Ramadan Effect”. The following three indices are used: KSE-100, LSE-25 and ISE-10. An OLS regression and a GARCH (1,1) methodology will be used for the testing daily, weekly and monthly returns. The findings of this study shows the existence of Monday effect in ISE-10 index using the OLS methodology, however this effect wasn’t present using GARCH (1,1). By sub-sampling we observed the presence of Monday
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taken into consideration before the owners make a final decision. More of the Same Game Every year professional football keeps lovers of the game on edge, as fans watch a 16-game regular-season in anticipation of the big finale, the Super Bowl Championship. The football schedule consists of four pre-season games and 16 regular-season games. Roger S. Goodell, Commissioner of the NFL, has proposed shortening the pre-season by two games, thereby extending the regular season from 16 games to 18
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presented with any particular information about the wines they had to taste in their blind test, participants were not able to report any major “differences among the wines”. (Plassmann et. All., 2007, p. 1051) Based on these findings the first hypothesis of the study is (1) Participants tested in the blind test will taste no major difference among the different coke sorts. Based on the same study about beer brand identification on taste perception, the researchers observed that participants have
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Speculate on why the editor chose the graph, as opposed to merely reporting the data. MAT 300 Week 3 Discussion "Data Description" See the e-Activity for the data for this discussion * Note, the data in the e-Activity is presented to you in two ways, but it is the same data. The first set of data is median home value by state, unranked. The second set of data is median home value by rank. * Use the step by step guide, also found in the e-Activity, to calculate the mean, median, variance
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consolidation phase of motor learning (2003) through the reaction time test, thereby modulating implicit learning, as predicted in the first hypothesis (a) by the researchers. Second, the fact that no participant was able to identify any sequences during the experiment indicates that only implicit learning was occurring, firmly supporting the second hypothesis (b) that the frontal cortices are directly involved with implicit motor
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their leverage profile. Moreover, they have become the primary tool of money management and monetary control of several central banks, including the Bundesbank and the newly born European Central Bank. This paper is an empirical study of this market. More specifically, we study the extent to which the current term structure of long term ‘‘special’’ repo spreads discount the future collateral value (specialness) of Treasuries. We ask whether repo spreads embed a liquidity risk premium and whether such
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