June 2009
Intermediate to advanced
416 pages
9h 5m
English
Content preview from The Flaw of Averages: Why We Underestimate Risk in the Face of Uncertainty
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Index
Abrams, Fred
accounting
generally accepted accounting principles
principles based versus rules based
Strong Form of Flaw of Averages in
Weak Form of Flaw of Averages in
advertising, results of
Al Qaeda
Ameo, Bob
American options
American Revolution
amygdala (in brain)
Analytica (software)
analytical business models
Anderson, Christine
Anderson, John
Anderson, Ted
anthrax attacks
Applied Quantitative Sciences, Inc.
Arabic numerals
Archimedes model
Army, U.S.
Arnold, Arthur
asteroids
@RISK (software)
auditing DISTs
autocorrelation
averages
definition of
Law of Averages
medians, modes and
averaging, deadly sins of
Bachelier, Louis
Bacon, Francis
Baker, Bryan
Ball, Ben
Base64 encoding
baseball, Simpson’s Paradox in
Bayesian analysis
beer game
Bellomo, Michael
Benny, Jack
Berkson, Joe
Bernstein, Peter L.
Berry, Halle
Bessemer, Sir Henry
Bessemer Trust (firm)
beta (slope of relationship between individual securities and Dow Jones)
Bichsel, Matthias
Black, Fisher
Black-Scholes equation
Black Swans
Blakeslee, Sandra
blitzogams
bootstrap method
Box, George
brain
Brashear, Jerry P.
breast cancer
Bricklin, Dan
Broadie, Mark
Bruce, Peter
bubble bursts
Buckingham, Stuart
budgeting, sandbagging in
bullwhip effect
business plans, options and restrictions in
buying long and short
calibration of probabilities
call options
option charts for
valuation of
Campbell, Mike
cancer
cannibalization (of products)
Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)
carbon dioxide (CO2)
cardiac patients
Carnegie, ...
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