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Risk revealed : cautionary tales, understanding and communication / Paul Embrechts, Marius Hofert, Valérie Chavez-Demoulin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Embrechts, Paul, 1953- author.
- Hofert, Marius, author.
- Chavez-Demoulin, Valérie, 1969- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Risk assessment--Statistical methods.
- Risk assessment.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xix, 362 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- "Explore the understanding and statistical modeling of risk with this accessible book that requires only a basic background in mathematics. The authors discuss several major disasters, before introducing the mathematical tools required to analyze them. Even the more technical discussions are interspersed with historical comments and many examples"-- Provided by publisher
- Contents:
- The 1953 great flood
- The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster
- The 2007-2008 financial crisis
- Earthquakes and tsunamis
- The l'Aquila trial and the public communication of risk
- The Coronavirus pandemic
- Mathematical wonderland
- Stochastic modeling
- The modeling of extreme events
- On climate change and related risk
- Further examples from the world of extremes
- Networks
- The black tulip and February 3, 1637
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Apr 2024).
- ISBN:
- 9781009299794
- 1009299794
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