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Bibliography

Here is a list of books from our library that we particularly like, organised by topical area.

Simulation

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Law AM and Kelton WD (2000). Simulation Modeling and Analysis, 3rd ed. McGraw-Hill.

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Business risk and decision analysis

Clemen RT and Reilly T (2001). Making Hard Decisions. Duxbury, CA.

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Jensen FV (2001). Bayesian Networks and Decision Graphs. Springer, NY

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Extreme value theory

Gumbel, E. J., (1958). Statistics of Extremes, Columbia University Press.

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Insurance

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Klugman SA, Panjer HH and Willmot GE (1998). Loss Models: from data to decisions. Wiley, NY.

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Financial risk

Brealey RM and Myers SC (2000). Principles of Corporate Finance, 6th ed. McGraw Hill

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The Bootstrap

Chernick, MR (1999). Bootstrap Methods - a practical guide. Wiley Interscience, NY.

Davison AC and Hinkley DV (1997). Bootstrap Methods and their Applications. Cambridge, UK.

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General statistics and probability theory

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Taylor, HM and Karlin, S (1998). An Introduction to Stochastic Modeling, 3rd ed. Academic Press, London.

Project risk analysis

Chapman C and Ward S (1997). Project Risk Management. Wiley, Chichester, UK.

Grey, S., (1995). Practical Risk Assessment for Project Management, J Wiley & Sons.

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Reliability theory

Bentley JP (1999). Reliability and Quality Engineering. Addison-Wesley, Harlow, UK.

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Queueing theory

Bunday BD (1996). An Introduction to Queueing Theory. Arnold, London.

Bayesian statistics

Berry DA and Stamgl DK (1996). Bayesian Biostatistics. Dekker, NY

Carlin BP and Louis TA (1996). Bayes and Empirical Bayes methods for Data Analysis. Chapman and Hall.

Gelman A et al (1995). Bayesian Data Analysis. Chapman and Hall.

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Pole A, West M and Harrison J (1999). Applied Bayesian Forecasting and Time Series Analysis. CRC, FL.

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Forecasting

Dunis C (1996). Forecasting Financial Markets. Wiley, NY.

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General risk analysis

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Epidemiology

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Fun

Bennett DJ (1998). Randomness. Harvard.

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