chapter 9  data modeling with python

... sustainable retirement withdrawal is the amount a client can withdraw periodically from her retirement funds for a selected planning horizon This amount cannot be determined with complete certainty ... practice, the sustainable retirement withdrawal is determined by limiting the probability of running out of funds to some specified level, such as 136 FINANCIAL MODELING WITH CRYSTAL BALL AND EXCEL percent ... horizon, the estimated median value of her 138 FINANCIAL MODELING WITH CRYSTAL BALL AND EXCEL TABLE 9.4 Optimal asset allocations and sustainable withdrawal rates for two planning horizons Horizon...

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... may be on Figure 10-7: Filling a section with All Layers off and on Unfilled shapes Shapes filled with the All Layers check box deselected Shapes filled with the All Layers check box selected (8-bit ... area until the program finds a border without gaps If you aren’t careful, you can find yourself with a completely black page! You could comb over the area with your pen or marker and draw in any ... well as closing any gaps in your line art with the Join Line tool Then, I discuss some of the cool special effects that you can add to your line art with the Airbrush and Pattern Brush tools...

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... But Python is even smarter than that; not only can you import entire modules contained within a package, you can selectively import specific classes or functions from a module contained within ... regular Python list of regular Python objects Since getting the first child node of a node is a useful and common activity, the Node class has a firstChild attribute, which is synonymous with childNodes[0] ... anywhere in your Python path, # but it usually goes in ${pythondir}/lib/site-packages/ import sys sys.setdefaultencoding('iso-8859-1') sitecustomize.py is a special script; Python will try to...

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... used for transmitting voice, where a great deal of interference and distortion can be accepted without loss of intelligibility Topics discussed in this section: Modem Standards 9.10 Figure 9.6 ... network can be bidirectional 9.29 9-5 CABLE TV FOR DATA TRANSFER Cable companies are now competing with telephone companies for the residential customer who wants high-speed data transfer In this...

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... 460010 560010 Cao Hoang Tru CSE Faculty - HCMUT 24 01 December 2008 Rotation • Used in combination with fold shift original key rotated key 600101 600102 600103 600104 600105 160010 260010 360010 ... Requiring collision resolution methods • Each collision resolution method can be used independently with each hash function Cao Hoang Tru CSE Faculty - HCMUT 28 01 December 2008 Collision Resolution ... Resolution • As data are added and collisions are resolved, hashing tends to cause data to group within the list ⇒ Clustering: data are unevenly distributed across the list • High degree of clustering...

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... hierarchical structure Fundamental concepts Structural modeling (Gate & Switch-level modeling) Dataflow modeling (Expression) Behavioral modeling Tasks and Functions State machines Testbench and ... Design Gate/Switch level modeling - Primitive switch, gate - User defined primitive Dataflow modeling -Continuous assignment (assign) - Expression (operators) Behavioral modeling - Procedural assignment ... different ways of modeling a hardware design Choose an appropriate model to design Combinational or Sequential Circuit  Some books not classify Dataflow modeling as a separate modeling type Structural...

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... noise/outliers • MAX/GROUP AVERAGE: may not work well with non-globular clusters – CURE algorithm tries to handle both problems Often starts with a proximity matrix – A type of graph-based algorithm ... core points If two core points are within a radius, Eps, of each other they are place in the same cluster Discard all noise points All non-core points that are not within a radius of Eps of a core ... Introduction to Data Mining Graph-Based Clustering Graph-Based clustering uses the proximity graph – Start with the proximity matrix – Consider each point as a node in a graph – Each edge between two nodes...

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... modeling (Gate & Switch-level modeling) Dataflow modeling (Expression) Behavioral modeling Tasks and Functions State machines Testbench and verification VHDL introduction Content  Dataflow modeling ... Continuous assignment: main construct in dataflow modeling,     always active Left hand side of assignment must be a net Using expression with operators & operands Delays on a net can be defined ... of individual gates  RTL (register transfer level): is a combination of dataflow and behavioral modeling Continuous assignment  Drive a value onto a net assign out = i1 & i2; //out is net; i1...

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... gsl_stats July 10, 2008 Modeling with Data gsl_stats July 10, 2008 gsl_stats July 10, 2008 Modeling with Data Tools and Techniques for Scientic Computing Ben ... linear regression, maximum likelihood methods, multilevel modeling, simulation (including agent-based modeling) , data mining, nonparametric modeling, and various other methods [Online source for ... seconds With a debugger, the distance is even smaller, because you can jump around your C code, change intermediate values, and otherwise interact with your program the way you would with a stats...

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... three significant digits (all that were inspected) with the exact analytical solution For Dt = 15 minutes, the solution was nearly identical with only an occasional difference of one in the third ... hydrology in water quality modeling: uses, abuses, and future directions Journal of the American Water Resources Association 41: 377–388 Ghadiri, H., and C W Rose 1992, Modeling chemical transport ... BASINS (Better Assessment Science Integrating Point and Nonpoint Sources), the USEPA’s watershed modeling tools for support of water quality management programs throughout the country (Lahlou et...

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... Financial Modeling with Crystal Ball and Excel JOHN CHARNES John Wiley & Sons, Inc Financial Modeling with Crystal Ball and Excel Founded in 1807, John ... The chapter concludes with a discussion of the benefits and limitations of risk analysis with Crystal Ball and Excel FINANCIAL MODELING For the purposes of this book, financial modeling is the construction ... done with that stuff How can it help me?’’ FINANCIAL MODELING WITH CRYSTAL BALL AND EXCEL In short, probability and statistics help you weigh the potential rewards and punishments associated with...

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... Figure 2.3 shows the frequency with which the simulation trials fell into each interval or below For example, from the cumulative frequency 14 FINANCIAL MODELING WITH CRYSTAL BALL AND EXCEL FIGURE ... is lognormal with mean 1.1517 and standard deviation 0.2746 Cells C12:C41 represent the total annual return on bonds for years through 30 Each year’s return on bonds is lognormal with mean 1.0585 ... 12 FINANCIAL MODELING WITH CRYSTAL BALL AND EXCEL FIGURE 2.1 Spreadsheet segment from Accumulate.xls showing accumulated...

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... purchase decision Note that both the Name: and the Units: can be specified with a cell reference 31 32 FINANCIAL MODELING WITH CRYSTAL BALL AND EXCEL FIGURE 3.4 Defining the demand assumption for ... forecast to the deterministic model in AKGolf.xls to create a stochastic model 30 FINANCIAL MODELING WITH CRYSTAL BALL AND EXCEL TABLE 3.1 Stochastic assumptions to be added to AKGolf.xls Assumption ... price of drivers sold during the season is uniform with a minimum of $355, and a maximum of $395 The average end-of-season sales price is uniform with a minimum of $175, and a maximum of $195 Table...

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... between the minimum and maximum with equal likelihood The 44 FINANCIAL MODELING WITH CRYSTAL BALL AND EXCEL FIGURE 4.9 Continuous uniform distribution used for modeling a firm’s revenue, where ... 4.35 Second step in using Batch Fit with data in file BatchFit.xls FIGURE 4.36 Third step in using Batch Fit with data in file BatchFit.xls 69 70 FINANCIAL MODELING WITH CRYSTAL BALL AND EXCEL FIGURE ... distribution The difference, profit, is 46 FINANCIAL MODELING WITH CRYSTAL BALL AND EXCEL FIGURE 4.11 Triangular(90,100,110) assumption used for modeling revenue in Figure 4.12 FIGURE 4.12 Spreadsheet...

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... 88 FINANCIAL MODELING WITH CRYSTAL BALL AND EXCEL FIGURE 5.21 Step in using the Decision Table tool with the Project.xls model FIGURE 5.22 Results from using the Decision Table tool with the Project.xls ... and follows a normal distribution with mean = percent, and standard deviation = percent Variable cost as a percentage of revenue is also 80 FINANCIAL MODELING WITH CRYSTAL BALL AND EXCEL FIGURE ... at a time, but so with care as they become hard to read when too many forecasts are included DECISION TABLE WITH TWO DECISION VARIABLES You can also use the Decision Table tool with two decision...

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... that you will need However, if you are facile with Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) FIGURE 6.7 Run Preferences Options tab 104 FINANCIAL MODELING WITH CRYSTAL BALL AND EXCEL and wish to things ... , s, and n) can be used to increase the precision of the estimate of the mean 98 FINANCIAL MODELING WITH CRYSTAL BALL AND EXCEL The value of zα/2 is affected by the number you enter in the Confidence ... Wealth forecast showing that a precision of $46,587 was reached in 40,000 trials 100 FINANCIAL MODELING WITH CRYSTAL BALL AND EXCEL FIGURE 6.5 Run Preferences Sampling tab these random numbers has...

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... 106 FINANCIAL MODELING WITH CRYSTAL BALL AND EXCEL FIGURE 7.1 Spreadsheet segment to model annuity with deterministic cash flows of −$100 at the end of Year ... calculated as Ct = 30 + 3Zt for t = 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, where each Zt is drawn from a 108 FINANCIAL MODELING WITH CRYSTAL BALL AND EXCEL normal(0,1) distribution independently of the Zt s for the other ... cash flows has much less dispersion than the distribution for Model cash flows 110 FINANCIAL MODELING WITH CRYSTAL BALL AND EXCEL was first promoted some 40 years ago by Hertz (1968), computers...

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... administrative (SG&A) expenses Modeling Financial Statements FIGURE 8.2 Balance sheet in Sengupta.xls FIGURE 8.3 Common-size statements in Sengupta.xls 127 128 FINANCIAL MODELING WITH CRYSTAL BALL AND ... In modeling financial statements, our intent is to project financial measures into the future to help make informed decisions about the activities that result in these 130 FINANCIAL MODELING WITH ... insight than from a deterministic model Modeling Financial Statements 131 The procedure for modeling financial statements is to identify the key inputs, as we did with the tornado chart, which varied...

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... simulates returns from a portfolio with weights 0.30, 0.25, and 0.45, invested in Assets 1, 2, and 3, respectively Asset rates of return are 144 FINANCIAL MODELING WITH CRYSTAL BALL AND EXCEL FIGURE ... pointed out some of its shortcomings, which are discussed in the next section 142 FINANCIAL MODELING WITH CRYSTAL BALL AND EXCEL SHORTCOMINGS OF VAR VaR provides no information about the extent ... demonstrate subadditivity of CVaR in a situation for which VaR is not subadditive 146 FINANCIAL MODELING WITH CRYSTAL BALL AND EXCEL TABLE 10.2 VaR and CVaR for independent investments modeled in...

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