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Probabilistic Methods for Financial and Marketing Informatics

Richard E. Neapolitan, Xia Jiang

 

Verlag Elsevier Trade Monographs, 2007

ISBN 9780080555676 , 432 Seiten

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Front Cover

1

Probabilistic Methods for Financial and Marketing Informatics

2

Copyright Page

3

Contents

8

Preface

4

Part I: Bayesian Networks and Decision Analysis

14

Chapter 1. Probabilistic Informatics

16

1.1 What Is Informatics?

17

1.2 Probabilistic Informatics

19

1.3 Outline of This Book

20

Chapter 2. Probability and Statistics

22

2.1 Probability Basics

22

2.2 Random Variables

29

2.3 The Meaning of Probability

37

2.4 Random Variables in Applications

43

2.5 Statistical Concepts

47

Chapter 3. Bayesian Networks

66

3.1 What Is a Bayesian Network?

67

3.2 Properties of Bayesian Networks

69

3.3 Causal Networks as Bayesian Networks

76

3.4 Inference in Bayesian Networks

85

3.5 How Do We Obtain the Probabilities?

91

3.6 Entailed Conditional Independencies *

105

Chapter 4. Learning Bayesian Networks

124

4.1 Parameter Learning

125

4.2 Learning Structure (Model Selection)

139

4.3 Score-Based Structure Learning *

140

4.4 Constraint-Based Structure Learning

151

4.5 Causal Learning

158

4.6 Software Packages for Learning

164

4.7 Examples of Learning

166

Chapter 5. Decision Analysis Fundamentals

190

5.1 Decision Trees

191

5.2 Influence Diagrams

208

5.3 Dynamic Networks *

225

Chapter 6. Further Techniques in Decision Analysis

242

6.1 Modeling Risk Preferences

243

6.2 Analyzing Risk Directly

249

6.3 Dominance

253

6.4 Sensitivity Analysis

257

6.5 Value of Information

267

6.6 Normative Decision Analysis

272

Part II: Financial Applications

278

Chapter 7. Investment Science

280

7.1 Basics of Investment Science

280

7.2 Advanced Topics in Investment Science*

291

7.3 A Bayesian Network Portfolio Risk Analyzer *

327

Chapter 8. Modeling Real Options

342

8.1 Solving Real Options Decision Problems

343

8.2 Making a Plan

352

8.3 Sensitivity Analysis

353

Chapter 9. Venture Capital Decision Making

356

9.1 A Simple VC Decision Model

358

9.2 A Detailed VC Decision Model

360

9.3 Modeling Real Decisions

363

9.A Appendix

365

Chapter 10. Bankruptcy Prediction

370

10.1 A Bayesian Network for Predicting Bankruptcy

371

10.2 Experiments

377

Part III: Marketing Applications

384

Chapter 11. Collaborative Filtering

386

11.1 Memory-Based Methods

387

11.2 Model-Based Methods

390

11.3 Experiments

393

Chapter 12. Targeted Advertising

400

12.1 Class Probability Trees

401

12.2 Application to Targeted Advertising

403

Bibliography

410

Index

422