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Abstract: Inferring the causal structure that links n observables is usually based upon detecting statistical dependences and choosing simple graphs that make the joint measure Markovian. Here we ...

This study investigates the application of survival analysis techniques to credit risk modelling in microfinance lending. Traditional approaches focus on modelling the probability of default at a ...

Sias founder David Gerald says implied discount to Advanced Systems Automation’s offer has ‘widened materially’ to in excess of 67% [SINGAPORE] The Securities Investors Association (Singapore), or ...

In repeated interactions, people tend to cooperate conditionally. They are influenced by whether others cooperate, and react accordingly. Direct reciprocity is based on repeated interactions between ...

When is it appropriate to completely reinvent the wheel? To an outsider, that seems to happen a lot in category theory, and probability theory isn’t spared from this treatment. We’ve had a useful ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Ocean waves and the wind in the lower marine atmospheric boundary layer play crucial roles in the air-sea interactions and are both vital for the control of the weather and of the climate system. One ...