"Thomas,
I read that a few years back, and it's quite interesting. You may also like "When Genius Failed", a book about Long Term Capital Management's rise and fall."
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For those that missed the WSDM2008 Conference in Feb (Palo Alto)
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Thomas Glenn McKee Jr commented on Mark Richards's group The Library of Babel
"I have had a long time interest in nonlinear systems, chaos, and time series. I found The PredictorsHow a Band of Maverick Physicists Used Chaos Theory to Trade Their Way to a Fortune on Wall Street in a "bargain bin" and have found it to…"
Mark Richards replied to Manish's discussion Modeling Rare Events in the group Analytical Techniques
""...a form of bootstrap sampling to boost your rare event cases higher for development purposes "
Have you considered adaptive methods (e.g Gradient Boosting aka Salford System's "Tree Net")?"
Mark Richards replied to Mikhail Gorelkin's discussion A new book "Computational Social Network Analysis. Trends, Tools and Research Advances" (November 2009)... in the group Social Network Analytics
"Do a search on "Introduction to Statistical Relational Learning" Getoor and Taskar.
There's a ton of relevant hits. The book is avaialable on Amazon."
Mark Richards replied to Mikhail Gorelkin's discussion A new book "Computational Social Network Analysis. Trends, Tools and Research Advances" (November 2009)... in the group Social Network Analytics
"There's a table of contents here:
http://www.cs.umd.edu/srl-book/"
Mark Richards replied to Yi-Chun Tsai's discussion two-stage models to improve response prediction
"Hi Yi-Chun,
Yes, it's pretty much that simple, and makes that much sense. I'd say Greene's "Econometrics" is a good place to start, and if you really want a deep dive then Maddala's book. You might just search on…"
Mark Richards replied to Yi-Chun Tsai's discussion two-stage models to improve response prediction
"Yi-Chun's response is a fairly common approach (and a good description).
The problem is that it assumes that the amount of the sale is independent of the probability of responding to the advertisement.
If this assumption doesn't make…"
Mark Richards replied to Mikhail Gorelkin's discussion A new book "Computational Social Network Analysis. Trends, Tools and Research Advances" (November 2009)... in the group Social Network Analytics
"I like Getoor and Taskar's recent book: http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/author/default.asp?aid=20060"
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- 14 years statistician in various industries (pharma, credit, insurance, retail, cpg & entertainment)
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Comment Wall (12 comments)
- At 11:13am on February 15, 2009,
Mike Kruger said…
- Good to hear from you again. I hope the years have been kind to you.
Mike
- At 7:43pm on September 13, 2008,
fency said…
- Hi Mark
How are you?long time no see?
Fency
- At 4:58pm on September 8, 2008,
Greg Schopp said… - Mark,
Tried calling you at ISO, you still there?
Greg
- At 9:34am on June 26, 2008,
Muhammad Riaz said… - hi Mark,
Thank you for inviting me to your group.
Best Wishes,
Muhammad
- At 9:23am on June 23, 2008,
Mary Parker said…
- Thank you Mark. Let me know when I can be of assistance.
Mary
- At 11:21am on June 5, 2008,
Patrice Latinne said… - Thanks a lot, Mark for the great information you shared on my wall about emerging issues. I do appreciate. I'll provide some feedback as soon as possible.
Cheers,
Patrice
- At 11:36pm on May 14, 2008,
Vladimir Lukin said… - Mark,
Thanks for pointing that book by Soumen Chakrabarti "Mining the Web" good intro into Web and HTTP basics, and I am looking forward studying a little bit harder statistical techniques applied to web data.
VL
- At 5:52pm on April 22, 2008,
- first of all thanks for the invitation into ur friends group....ya am living in wheaton,IL...why did u ask me?
- At 11:10am on April 15, 2008,
Carol M Lazo said… - Thanks for the invite ;)
- At 4:49am on March 14, 2008, Muhammad Riaz said…
- Thank you for adding me as a friend.
Best Regards
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