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... The Journal of Finance (a) (b) Figure Illustration of bandwidth selection for kernel regression Foundations of Technical Analysis (c) (d) Figure Continued 1713 1714 The Journal of Finance Kernel ... technical analysis in popularity—the principles of portfolio optimization are far easier to program into a computer than the basic tenets of technical analysis Nevertheless, technical analysis ... reach of technical analysis by augmenting its tool kit with some modern techniques in pattern recognition The general goal of technical analysis is to identify regularities in the time series of...

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... E3 Ͻ E1 , E3 Ͻ E5 E1 and E5 are within 1.5 percent of their average E2 and E4 are within 1.5 percent of their average Foundations of Technical Analysis 1717 Observe that only five consecutive ... the nature of the patterns, it Foundations of Technical Analysis 1719 is virtually impossible to distinguish signal from noise in this case Therefore, our algorithm fixes the length of the window ... In the empirical analysis of Section III, we set l ϭ 35 and d ϭ 3; hence each window consists of 38 trading days The motivation for fitting kernel regressions to rolling windows of data is to narrow...

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... Journal of Finance III Is Technical Analysis Informative? Although there have been many tests of technical analysis over the years, most of these tests have focused on the profitability of technical ... Brock et al ~1992! Foundations of Technical Analysis 1727 deciles of unconditional returns and tabulate the relative frequency dZ j of conditional returns falling into decile j of the unconditional ... occurrences of each of these patterns for each stock during each fiveyear subperiod ~divide the total number of occurrences by ϫ 50!, not an unreasonable frequency from the point of view of professional...

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... Journal of Finance (a) (b) Figure Distribution of patterns in NYSE/AMEX sample Foundations of Technical Analysis (c) (d) Figure Continued 1737 1738 The Journal of Finance ~e! (f) Figure Continued Foundations ... Foundations of Technical Analysis (g) (h) Figure Continued 1739 1740 The Journal of Finance (i) (j) Figure Continued Foundations of Technical Analysis (a) (b) Figure Distribution of patterns ... in Nasdaq sample 1741 1742 The Journal of Finance (c) (d) Figure Continued Foundations of Technical Analysis (e) (f) Figure Continued 1743 1744 The Journal of Finance (g) (h) Figure Continued ...

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... Kolmogorov– Foundations of Technical Analysis 1753 Smirnov test still cannot distinguish between the decreasing and increasing volume-trend conditional distributions, as the last pair of rows of Table ... quintiles, under the null hypothesis of equality For each of the two sets of market data, two sample sizes, m and m , have been chosen to span the range of frequency counts of patterns reported in Tables ... rectangle bottom ~RBOT!, double top ~DTOP!, and double bottom ~DBOT! Foundations of Technical Analysis 1751 1752 The Journal of Finance in the Nasdaq sample, with p-values that are zero to three...

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... 0.89 0.405 0.75 0.627 Foundations of Technical Analysis 1761 1762 The Journal of Finance Table IX Bootstrap percentiles for the Kolmogorov–Smirnov test of the equality of conditional and unconditional ... quintiles, under the null hypothesis of equality For each of the two sets of market data, two sample sizes, m and m , have been chosen to span the range of frequency counts of patterns reported in Table ... 1.224 308 1.308 1.358 308 1.615 1.628 308 Foundations of Technical Analysis 1763 Table X Bootstrap percentiles for the Kolmogorov–Smirnov test of the equality of conditional and unconditional one-day...

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... closure of R\S; (ii) the complement of S is the interior of R\S .9 The boundary, or frontier, of a set S ⊂ R is the intersection of the closures of S and R\S Describe the boundary of each of the ... This argument is a refined version of the “diagonal argument” first used by Cantor An interesting analysis of Cantor’s proof, and of the misinterpretation of that proof over the years, is found in ... Proposition The union of any family of open sets is open The intersection of any finite family of open sets is open Proof Let (Ai )i∈I be any family of open sets If x belongs to the union U of this family,...

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... i Foundations of Agile Python Development Jeff Younker 9810FM.qxd 6/3/08 2:37 PM Page ii Foundations of Agile Python Development Copyright © 2008 by Jeff Younker All rights reserved No part of ... together in teams Mathematicians, members of the classic loner profession, actually spend a huge amount of time in front of blackboards hashing out ideas together Coffee fuels them, but it’s usually ... software is really redesigning old features Every software developer is also an architect The two roles are one and the same Producing software becomes an entirely automatic process that is often...

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... at Microsoft, where he specializes in the technologies for the next generation of the Web He has been amazed at how things have progressed since Foundations of Atlas (the predecessor of this book) ... with every occurrence of a trademarked name, we use the names only in an editorial fashion and to the benefit of the trademark owner, with no intention of infringement of the trademark Lead Editor: ... 828-8 FM.qxd 10/15/07 6:02 AM Page i Foundations of ASP.NET AJAX Robin Pars, Laurence Moroney, and John Grieb 828-8 FM.qxd 10/15/07 6:02 AM Page ii Foundations of ASP.NET AJAX Copyright © 2007 by...

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... 4/27/07 6:54 PM Page i Foundations of F# Robert Pickering 7575FM.qxp 4/27/07 6:54 PM Page ii Foundations of F# Copyright © 2007 by Robert Pickering All rights reserved No part of this work may be ... University of Cambridge, becoming an expert in the application of automated proof to real-world problems, participating in the team that formally verified the correctness of aspects of the Intel ... F# Table 2-1 Continued Software Used In URL NProf Chapter 12 http://www.mertner.com/confluence/display/ NProf/Home CLR Profiler for NET 2.0 Chapter 12 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details...

Ngày tải lên: 21/08/2012, 09:28

... The The The The The The value value value value value value value value value value of of of of of of of of of of x x x x x x x x x x is is is is is is is is is is Get it? Now that you have, I’ll ... 6250FM.qxd 2/22/06 4:44 PM Page i Foundations of Java for ABAP Programmers Alistair Rooney 6250FM.qxd 2/22/06 4:44 PM Page ii Foundations of Java for ABAP Programmers Copyright © 2006 ... we will explore the basic constructs of the Java language You shouldn’t skip any of these lessons, since they will lay the foundation for the second part of the book Always try what you have...

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... activity of disease in sarcoidosis or HP In addition, finding of encapsulated exudates may suggest desquamation of early stage of Masson body which implies possible diagnosis in a limited number of ... records of a total of 2260 patients with various lung diseases between 1984 and 2006 at our Nippon Medical School affiliated hospitals (Table 1) Among them, 76 of sarcoidosis and 14 of HP patients ... Patients’ group showing the highest rate of lymphocytes Of the 2260 patients, 488 (21.6%) showed a lymphocyte rate of higher than 40% Clinical diagnoses of these patients included sarcoidosis (22.1%),...

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... sort of a framework In Python, a natural choice is Setuptools, which provides a solid basis for automated builds Chapter 5: A Build for Every Check-In Automated build systems form the core of a ... development (TDD) is the practice of writing tests before writing the code they test Imposters (a.k.a mock objects) provide a powerful unit-testing technique to isolate units of code I examine two mock ... Pydev plug-in Chapter 3: Revision Control: Subverting Your Code A revision control system is part of the core infrastructure for any agile development environment Subversion is an excellent choice...

Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2013, 10:20

... University of Cambridge, becoming an expert in the application of automated proof to real-world problems, participating in the team that formally verified the correctness of aspects of the Intel ... Joining Microsoft in 1998, he saw the opportunity to enhance and transform the design of the NET Framework by including elements of functional programming, beginning with the addition of generics ... Sister had to put up with me sneaking off to write whenever I went to visit them Also, my work colleagues often suffered grumpy mornings after late nights of F# hacking and writing: Arnaud, Aurélie,...

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... astonished as I had planned at least a week of work for both coding and running the application The second application was an analysis of millions of feedbacks We had developed the model equations ... pleasures of life in the hope that it will make him virtuous John Hughes, Chalmers University of Technology (http://www.math.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Papers/whyfp.html) To see the advantages of functional ... functional languages offer other features that borrow from mathematics and are not commonly found in imperative languages For example, functional programming languages often offer curried functions,...

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Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2013, 10:20

... during storage of specimens, but also during the headspace analysis As shown in > Fig 8.1A, the decomposition product isobutyl alcohol is detected even in headspace GC analysis of the standard ... of 0.4 mL of blank blood and 0.4 mL of IS- containing pentane solution in a glass vial with a Teflon-septum screw cap, which has been cooled with ice, and vortex-mixed for s; a 3-µL aliquot of ... concentration of isobutyl nitrite detected by analysis only shows one at the time point of the injection into GC and does not reflect the in vivo level Under the present GC conditions, the peak of isobutyl...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 00:15

... a stream of nitrogen gas at room temperature e iii The residue is dissolved in 100 µL of the dichloromethane solution of DAEMO (IS solution); a 1-µL of it is injected into GC/MS for analysis ... TIC and mass chromatograms; (b) an EI mass spectrum of the t-BDMS derivative of EMPA; (c) a CI mass spectrum of the same derivative of EMPA data of animals According to the reports by the US army ... JK, Paasivirta J et al (1981) Trace Analysis of Chemical Warfare Agents An Approach to the Environmental Monitoring of Nerve Agents Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland, Helsinki, pp 27, 28, 37–39,...

Ngày tải lên: 18/10/2013, 00:15

... GC/MS analysis of ∆9-THC-11-oic acid in human urine [15, 16] e) A method of silylation of glassware to be done before analysis was reported [17]; such treatment suppresses the adsorption of cannabinoids ... 10:316–323 14) Yamamoto I (1992) Methods for analysis of cannabis and its components In: The Pharmaceutical Society of Japan (ed) Standard Methods of Chemical Analysis in Poisoning – With Commentaries, ... 2.4 Mass spectra of the methyl ester plus TMS and TMS derivatives of ∆9-THC-11-oic acid The Substance Abuse and Mental Service Administration (SAMSA) in USA set the cutoff value of ∆9-THC-11-oic...

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