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"The book will form a solid foundation to support the transition of
students into the world of work or further research." Professor
Jane M Binner, Chair of Finance, Department of Finance, University
of Birmingham, UK "In over 20 years of teaching quantitative
methods, I have rarely come across a book such as this which
meets/exceeds all the expectations of its intended audience so
well" Tuan Yu, Lecturer, Kent Business School, Canterbury, UK "This
is a fantastic book for anyone wanting to understand, learn and
apply quantitative methods in finance using R" Professor Raphael
Markellos, Professor of Finance, Norwich Business School, UK
Quantitative Methods in Finance Using R draws on the extensive
teaching and research expertise of John Fry and Matt Burke,
covering a wide range of quantitative methods in Finance that
utilise the freely downloadable R software. With software playing
an increasingly important role in finance, this book is a must-have
introduction for finance students who want to explore how they can
undertake their own quantitative analyses in dissertation and
project work. Assuming no prior knowledge, and taking a holistic
approach, this brand new title guides you from first principles and
help to build your confidence in tackling large data sets in R.
Complete with examples and exercises with worked solutions, Fry and
Burke demonstrate how to use the R freeware for regression and
linear modelling, with attention given to presentation and the
importance of good writing and presentation skills in project work
and data analysis more generally. Through this book, you will
develop your understanding of: *Descriptive statistics *Inferential
statistics *Regression *Analysis of variance *Probability
regression models *Mixed models *Financial and non-financial time
series John Fry is a senior lecturer in Applied Mathematics at the
University of Hull. Fry has a PhD in Mathematical Finance from the
University of Sheffield. His main research interests span
mathematical finance, econophysics, statistics and operations
research. Matt Burke is a senior lecturer in Finance at Sheffield
Hallam University. He holds a PhD in Finance from the University of
East Anglia. Burke's main research interests lie in asset pricing
and climate finance.
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
This book investigates the operation of two linguistic mechanisms, ellipsis and wa-marking, in a corpus of colloquial Japanese speech. Its data set is the CallHome Japanese (CHJ) corpus, a collection of transcripts and digitized speech data for 120 telephone conversations between native speakers of Japanese. To make the CHJ data useful for linguistic research, John Fry annotates the original transcripts with a comprehensive set of acoustic, phonetic, syntactic and semantic tags. John Fry demonstrates that Japanese conversation obeys certain principles of argument ellipsis that appear to be language universal: namely, the tendency to omit transitive and human subjects and the tendency to express no more than one argument per clause. Analyzing the CHJ data further, Fry investigates the use and function of the topic-marking particle wa.
The quality of health care in the US depends on the patient's
ability to pay and his or her insurance cover, at an annual cost of
$3600 per head of population. In the UK, the quality of care costs
less at an annual cost of $1000 per head of population, although
care is sometimes delayed through a lack of resources. This book
compares the two systems from the viewpoint of primary care,
identifying some models of excellence from which both can benefit.
It draws on the experience of the NHS reforms in the UK and the
political imperative to control costs and improve the service in
the US.
Guidelines are powerful instruments of assistance to clinicians,
capable of extending the clinical roles of nurses and pharmacists.
Purchasers and managers perceive them as technological tools
guaranteeing treatment quality. Guidelines also offer mechanisms by
which doctors and other health care professionals can be made more
accountable to their patients. But how can clinicians tell whether
a guideline has authority, and whether or not it should be
followed? Does the law protect doctors who comply with guidelines?
Are guideline developers liable for faulty advice? This timely book
provides a comprehensive and accessible analysis of the many
medical and legal issues arising from the current explosion of
clinical guidelines. Featuring clear summaries of relevant UK, US
and Commonwealth case law, it is vital reading for all doctors,
health care workers, managers, purchasers, patients, and lawyers.
In the fall of 1913, Laura and Earle Smith, a young Iowa couple,
made the gutsy--some might say foolhardy--decision to homestead in
Wyoming. There, they built their first house, a claim shanty half
dug out of the ground, hauled every drop of their water from a
spring over a half-mile away, and fought off rattlesnakes and
boredom on a daily basis. Soon, other families moved to nearby
homesteads, and the Smiths built a house closer to those neighbors.
The growing community built its first public schoolhouse and
celebrated the Fourth of July together--although the festivities
were cut short because of snow.By 1917, however, the Smiths had
moved back to Iowa, leasing their land to a local rancher and using
the proceeds to fund Earle's study of law. The Smiths lived in Iowa
for most of the rest of their lives, and sometime after the
mid-1930s, Laura wrote this clear, vivid, witty, and
self-deprecating memoir of their time in Wyoming, a book that
captures the pioneer spirit of the era and of the building of
community against daunting odds.
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This series is intended particularly for young doctors working in
hospitals and in primary care and for those involved in training
them. The series has been designed to cover growing points in
medicine and the authors have been chosen, not just because of
their expertise, but also because they are working both in
hospitals and the community and are thus sensitive to the problems
and needs of doctors in both areas.
Originally laid down as one of six giant battle cruisers, the
Saratoga survived the 1922 Washington Disarmament Treaty's cutting
torch through her conversion to a new and seemingly benign type of
vessel-the aircraft carrier. She reported for fduty off Long Beach,
CA in 1927 and for the next twelve years trained the men who would
eventually fight World War II. One of only three carriers on duty
at the outset of World War II, Saratoga, at one point, was the sole
American carrier available to Naval Aviation. She suffered two
torpedo attacks and a horrifying kamikaze attack, and was reported
sunk many times by the Japanese. Refitted as a night-attack
carrier, then relegated to the role of training carrier, Saratoga
survived the war only to be sacrificed in the atomic bomb tests at
Bikini Atoll in 1946. No carrier, or ship, played a greater role in
developing the men and tactics that became the massive force that
United States Naval Aviation.
The trials and tribulations of a Canadian business titan during a
fascinating period in 19th-century Quebec. A Mind at Sea is an
intimate window into a vanished time when Canada was among the
world's great maritime countries. Between 1856 and 1877, Henry Fry
was the Lloyd's agent for the St. Lawrence River, east of Montreal.
The harbour coves below his home in Quebec were crammed with
immense rafts of cut wood, the river's shoreline sprawled with
yards where giant square-rigged ships - many owned by Fry - were
built. As the president of Canada's Dominion Board of Trade, Fry
was at the epicentre of wealth and influence. His home city of
Quebec served as the capital of the province of Canada, while its
port was often the scene of raw criminality. He fought vigorously
against the kidnapping of sailors and the dangerous practice of
deck loading. He also battled against and overcame his personal
demon - mental depression - going on to write many ship histories
and essays on U.S.-Canada relations. Fry was a colourful figure and
a reformer who interacted with the famous figures of the day,
including Lord and Lady Dufferin, Sir John A. Macdonald, Wilfrid
Laurier, and Sir Narcisse-Fortunat Belleau, Quebec's
lieutenant-governor.
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