Simulation - Hardcover

Ross

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0125980531 ISBN 13: 9780125980531

Publisher: Academic Press Inc, 2002

Synopsis

Sheldon Ross' Simulation, Third Edition introduces aspiring and practicing actuaries, engineers, computer scientists and others to the practical aspects of constructing computerized simulation studies to analyze and interpret real phenomena. Readers learn to apply results of these analyses to problems in a wide variety of fields to obtain effective, accurate solutions and make predictions about future outcomes. This new edition provides a comprehensive, in-depth, and current guide for constructing probability models and simulations for a variety of purposes. It features new information, including the presentation of the Insurance Risk Model, generating a Random Vector, and evaluating an Exotic Option. Also new is coverage of the changing nature of statistical methods due to the advancements in computing technology.

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Review:

"The book serves as an informative text and valuable reference...Whether as a text or a elementary reference, this book is indeed worth owning."- JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION

About the Author:

Sheldon M. Ross is a professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his Ph.D. in statistics at Stanford University in 1968 and has been at Berkeley ever since. He has published many technical articles and textbooks in the areas of statistics and applied probability. Among his texts are A First Course in Probability, Introduction to Probability Models, Stochastic Processes, and Introductory Statistics. Professor Ross is the founding and continuing editor of the journal Probability in the Engineering and Informational Sciences. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and a recipient of the Humboldt US Senior Scientist Award.

About this edition

• Publisher: Academic Press Inc
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0125980531
• ISBN 13: 9780125980531
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 274