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Comment on Statistical Analysis of Extreme Values: with Applications to Insurance, Finance, Hydrology and Other Fields by Yuriy Krvavych

Yuriy Krvavych — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 11:34:08 +0000

Review by Yuriy Krvavych for Statistical Analysis of Extreme Values: with Applications to Insurance, Finance, Hydrology and Other Fields Rating: Especially it is very interesting and advantageous in parts of EVT applicacation in Insurance and Finance!

Comment on Statistical Analysis of Extreme Values: with Applications to Insurance, Finance, Hydrology and Other Fields by Fabio Moraldi

Fabio Moraldi — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:43:42 +0000

Review by Fabio Moraldi for Statistical Analysis of Extreme Values: with Applications to Insurance, Finance, Hydrology and Other Fields Rating: The product is fine and it arrived a week ago, as desired. I bought two other products con amazon.com last year and they were sent to me from U.S. This time the package was sent from New Zealand and that cost me 7.70 of unexpected duties.

Comment on Statistical Analysis of Extreme Values: with Applications to Insurance, Finance, Hydrology and Other Fields by Steve Uhlig

Steve Uhlig — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:13:26 +0000

Review by Steve Uhlig for Statistical Analysis of Extreme Values: with Applications to Insurance, Finance, Hydrology and Other Fields Rating: Although the treatment of many extreme values distributions is rather complete at a theoretical point of view, very few practical considerations with respect to the actual way one should use these various EV models is provided. Unless you already know which class of EV distribution to use in your case, this book will not serve much. An overly important aspect of fitting distributions concerns the family of distribution to use for fitting a particular data, and here i haven't found much insight about practical considerations in this book. This is an important gap in this book because it is due to be practical.On the other hand, the estimation of particular EV distributions is thoroughly covered, with theoretical (many references) and practical issues (for the estimation only) well described in every section.Another negative point concerns the distribution of XTREMES provided with the book which is far from complete, and with bugs (changing on-line the values of the parameters of some distributions makes it crash...). I consider this book as a theoretically extended version of the manual of XTREMES, but not a self-sontained statistical book.In summary, if you are interested in a very specific EV family, then this book can be useful, but not as a textbook. Rather go to Castillo (EV in engineering) for a good textbook on EV distributions.

Comment on Spanish for Business and Finance: Basic Spanish Series (The Basic Spanish Series) by D. Hagopian

D. Hagopian — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 11:47:24 +0000

Review by D. Hagopian for Spanish for Business and Finance: Basic Spanish Series (The Basic Spanish Series) Rating: I purchased the Audio version of this book and am not happy with it at all. I am fluent in conversational Spanish and wanted more knowledge in Business Spanish. The CDs go through dialogue and ask you to repeat what they say. However, none of the dialogue is translated so you don't know what it is that you're saying! The CDs did not come with any manual or guide to use to translate the dialogue. They haven't been helpful at all and I am not happy with this purchase.