March 2020
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
9h 45m
English
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Index
- Activism, 289
- Actuarial risk, 218–219
- Actuarial science/tables, 22, 85–86, 279
- Actuaries (risk management horseman), 82–86
- Additive weighted scores, 165–166
- Agreed-on policy statements, usage, 121
- AIG, problems, 8, 85, 104
- Aleatory uncertainty, 129
- Algorithm aversion, 195, 198, 203
- Algorithms, 194–203
- Ambiguity, impact, 170–173
- Amtrak, derailments/collisions, 4
- Analysis, term (usage), 13
- Analysis placebo, 5, 41–42, 100–102, 189
- Analysts, Monte Carlo simulations (usage), 224–228
- Analytic hierarchy process (AHP), 33, 54, 189–190
- Analytic solutions, 262–263
- Analytica, 316
- Anchoring, 269, 271
- Andreassen, Paul, 42
- Antifragility, 205
- Aon Global Risk Consulting, 25–27, 45–46, 331
- Applied information economics (AIE), 228, 295, 328
- Arbitrary points, usage, 72–73
- Armstrong, J. Scott, 261–262
- Arthur Andersen, demise, 96, 99–100
- Artifacts, 155–160
- Assessment, term (usage), 13
- Assessors, risk aversion, 181
- Auditors, usage, 99
- Audits, usage, 29–30
- Augliere, Reed, 175
- Backtesting, 317–318
- Baez, John C., 185
- Barings Bank, problems, 282
- Baseline failure rates, 304
- Baxter International, Inc., 39–40, 229
- Bayesian analysis/method/view, 131, 276–277, 300e, 305
- Bayesian networks, 250
- Bayesian statistics, 276–278
- Bayes' theorem/inversion, 297–301
- Bears, swans (contrast), 193
- Bear Stearns, failure, 8
- Bearden, David,
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