In classic mathematical finance, a trader's actions have no direct influence on the asset price. For small trades this is a reasonable assumption, but large trades fire back at the underlying price. We consider a transient ...

The intention of this thesis is to give a better understanding of the way that subduction zones evolve, to examine the way that different subduction parameters affect each other and finally to demonstrate how visualization ...

Due to regulation reasons, life insurance undertakings have long been struggling with interest rate variations. In the post-financial-crisis era, most life insurance firms in Western countries are facing two major challenges, ...

An examination of the abridged notation introduced by Salmon for plane geometry. Culminating in its use to prove the theorems of Brianchon and Pascal, Steiner's theorem on Pascal's Hexagon and Steiner's solution of the ...

Cox's regression model is one of the most used methods in medical statistics, and the method also finds applications in other fields. The purpose of the model is to explore the relationship between the effect of covariates ...

This thesis is devoted to the simultaneous estimation of the means of p> 1 independent Poisson distributions. A novel loss function that penalizes bad estimates of each of the means and the sum of the means is introduced. ...