1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456890703321

Autore

Pollock Alex J

Titolo

Boom & bust [[electronic resource] ] : financial cycles and human prosperity / / Alex J. Pollock

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : AEI Press, 2011

ISBN

1-283-02949-9

9786613029492

0-8447-4384-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (107 p.)

Collana

Values and Capitalism

Disciplina

338.5/420973

Soggetti

Financial crises - United States - History

Finance - United States - History

Business cycles - United States - History

Electronic books.

United States Economic policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Nothing new under the financial sun -- The disturbing experience of watching your friends get rich -- All too human -- Panic -- Bubbles and economics : confounding Isaac Newton -- Did they really believe house prices couldn't go down? -- A $5 trillion government failure -- The yin and yang of two big balance sheets -- The golden age of government regulation? -- Taking risks, taking responsibility -- Can you regulate systemic risk when you are the systemic risk?.

Sommario/riassunto

In Understanding Financial Crises, Alex J. Pollock explains that while economic downturns can be frightening and difficult, people living in free markets economies today enjoy greater health and longevity, have better access to basic necessities, are better educated, work less arduous jobs, and have more choices and wider horizons than human beings at any other point in history. This wonderful reality would not exist in the absence of financial cycles. This book explains why.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910830379703321

Autore

Giudici Paolo

Titolo

Applied data mining for business and industry [[electronic resource] /] / Paolo Giudici, Silvia Figini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, NJ, : John Wiley, 2009

ISBN

1-282-12369-6

9786612123696

0-470-05886-2

0-470-74583-5

0-470-74582-7

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (259 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

FiginiSilvia

Disciplina

005.74068

006.312

Soggetti

Data mining

Business - Data processing

Commercial statistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Applied Data Mining for Business and Industry; Contents; 1 Introduction; Part I Methodology; 2 Organisation of the data; 2.1 Statistical units and statistical variables; 2.2 Data matrices and their transformations; 2.3 Complex data structures; 2.4 Summary; 3 Summary statistics; 3.1 Univariate exploratory analysis; 3.1.1 Measures of location; 3.1.2 Measures of variability; 3.1.3 Measures of heterogeneity; 3.1.4 Measures of concentration; 3.1.5 Measures of asymmetry; 3.1.6 Measures of kurtosis; 3.2 Bivariate exploratory analysis of quantitative data

3.3 Multivariate exploratory analysis of quantitative data3.4 Multivariate exploratory analysis of qualitative data; 3.4.1 Independence and association; 3.4.2 Distance measures; 3.4.3 Dependency measures; 3.4.4 Model-based measures; 3.5 Reduction of dimensionality; 3.5.1 Interpretation of the principal components; 3.6 Further reading; 4 Model specification; 4.1 Measures of distance; 4.1.1 Euclidean distance; 4.1.2 Similarity measures; 4.1.3 Multidimensional



scaling; 4.2 Cluster analysis; 4.2.1 Hierarchical methods; 4.2.2 Evaluation of hierarchical methods; 4.2.3 Non-hierarchical methods

4.3 Linear regression4.3.1 Bivariate linear regression; 4.3.2 Properties of the residuals; 4.3.3 Goodness of fit; 4.3.4 Multiple linear regression; 4.4 Logistic regression; 4.4.1 Interpretation of logistic regression; 4.4.2 Discriminant analysis; 4.5 Tree models; 4.5.1 Division criteria; 4.5.2 Pruning; 4.6 Neural networks; 4.6.1 Architecture of a neural network; 4.6.2 The multilayer perceptron; 4.6.3 Kohonen networks; 4.7 Nearest-neighbour models; 4.8 Local models; 4.8.1 Association rules; 4.8.2 Retrieval by content; 4.9 Uncertainty measures and inference; 4.9.1 Probability

4.9.2 Statistical models4.9.3 Statistical inference; 4.10 Non-parametric modelling; 4.11 The normal linear model; 4.11.1 Main inferential results; 4.12 Generalised linear models; 4.12.1 The exponential family; 4.12.2 Definition of generalised linear models; 4.12.3 The logistic regression model; 4.13 Log-linear models; 4.13.1 Construction of a log-linear model; 4.13.2 Interpretation of a log-linear model; 4.13.3 Graphical log-linear models; 4.13.4 Log-linear model comparison; 4.14 Graphical models; 4.14.1 Symmetric graphical models; 4.14.2 Recursive graphical models

4.14.3 Graphical models and neural networks4.15 Survival analysis models; 4.16 Further reading; 5 Model evaluation; 5.1 Criteria based on statistical tests; 5.1.1 Distance between statistical models; 5.1.2 Discrepancy of a statistical model; 5.1.3 Kullback-Leibler discrepancy; 5.2 Criteria based on scoring functions; 5.3 Bayesian criteria; 5.4 Computational criteria; 5.5 Criteria based on loss functions; 5.6 Further reading; Part II Business case studies; 6 Describing website visitors; 6.1 Objectives of the analysis; 6.2 Description of the data; 6.3 Exploratory analysis; 6.4 Model building

6.4.1 Cluster analysis

Sommario/riassunto

The increasing availability of data in our current, information overloaded society has led to the need for valid tools for its modelling and analysis. Data mining and applied statistical methods are the appropriate tools to extract knowledge from such data. This book provides an accessible introduction to data mining methods in a consistent and application oriented statistical framework, using case studies drawn from real industry projects and highlighting the use of data mining methods in a variety of business applications.  Introduces data mining methods and applications.Cove