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by junbum
February 12th, 2008, 8:43 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Phone interview with Constellation Energy
Replies: 7
Views: 62799

Phone interview with Constellation Energy

Can anyone give a bit more info is possible?
by junbum
February 10th, 2006, 11:07 am
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: interview
Replies: 2
Views: 119293

interview

<t>Can anyone give me a feel of the questions that major Investment Banks ask their Associates(PhD degrees).I have some interviews aligned up and am getting nervous,i really need help.If someone could say the actual questions they were asked when they were interviewed it might be useful as i would i...
by junbum
February 10th, 2006, 11:07 am
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: interview
Replies: 9
Views: 122236

interview

<t>Can anyone give me a feel of the questions that major Investment Banks ask their Associates(PhD degrees).I have some interviews aligned up and am getting nervous,i really need help.If someone could say the actual questions they were asked when they were interviewed it might be useful as i would i...
by junbum
February 5th, 2006, 5:34 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: interview--negative convexity,MBS questions-please help
Replies: 7
Views: 121880

interview--negative convexity,MBS questions-please help

Hello Monarc,I am preparing for some fixed income interviews too with major firms,would you want a discussion going between the two of us so that we could prepare better?
by junbum
July 5th, 2005, 12:51 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: correlated uniform number generator in MATLAB
Replies: 1
Views: 143612

correlated uniform number generator in MATLAB

Does anyone know how to generate correlated uniform random numbers in MATLAB.What would be the functional form of such a copula...
by junbum
June 29th, 2005, 10:27 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: CDOs and Copula Functions
Replies: 99
Views: 227620

CDOs and Copula Functions

Hello Stefanone,Could i get MATLAB codes using copulas that you can offer for credit risk analysis mostly CDO's or anything relevant you might have.I solicit your help.
by junbum
June 29th, 2005, 6:28 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: multi-dimensional copula implementation
Replies: 0
Views: 143797

multi-dimensional copula implementation

<t>I have seen copulas implemened in bivariate framework in the case of Archimedian but is available in multidimensions for normal and student-t.Is anyone aware of a multi-asset copula generator.The problem is to estimate the functional form i guess of the density in terms of correlations.MATLAB has...
by junbum
June 28th, 2005, 4:31 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: Maximum Likelihood estimation of a CIR model using CDS data
Replies: 20
Views: 152301

Maximum Likelihood estimation of a CIR model using CDS data

Hey Eymen,Do you have the code to do this and would you mind sharing?I need it ASAP to estimate my parameters.Help would be greatly appreciated
by junbum
June 25th, 2005, 7:48 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: correlation matrices for negative eigen values(not positive semi definite)
Replies: 12
Views: 146283

correlation matrices for negative eigen values(not positive semi definite)

are there any popular coputer codes in matlab or something like that that can accomplish this.Hlp would be apprecaited as i have to deal with this immediately...
by junbum
June 24th, 2005, 8:05 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: correlation matrices for negative eigen values(not positive semi definite)
Replies: 12
Views: 146283

correlation matrices for negative eigen values(not positive semi definite)

Hello All,Is anyone aware of matlab codes that can condition a correlation matrix that is not positive semi definite as required by cholesky decomposition into a approximate matrix that could be used so that i can use to generate multi-varaiate numbers out of that.Help is required..
by junbum
June 12th, 2005, 9:44 am
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: Oracle - 17 out of 20
Replies: 13
Views: 147131

Oracle - 17 out of 20

does anyone have sql-perl code to get data on default probabilities(EDF'S) from moody's database?
by junbum
June 12th, 2005, 9:41 am
Forum: Programming and Software Forum
Topic: perl script KMV
Replies: 0
Views: 145790

perl script KMV

does anyone have a perl script to get EDF'S(default probailities) from KMV database by date?it might be a combo of dbi with my sql that will do it but anyways is someone already has it ?i would really appreciate if you could post it
by junbum
June 12th, 2005, 6:55 am
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: copula correlation and kendall tau
Replies: 1
Views: 146154

copula correlation and kendall tau

<t>when we tie marginal distributions for a copula the rank correlation like kendall tau is used as a proxy and modifies suitably depending on the choice of copula.The thing that puzzles me is that the rank correlation is a single number at every point of time and comes from the residuals(feel free ...
by junbum
June 8th, 2005, 1:39 am
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: default correction estimation by Copula
Replies: 1
Views: 147381

default correction estimation by Copula

The default correlation more appropriate is the rank correlation like the kendall,for the common distribution it is a formula so you can put it in a very easy in the software of your choice
by junbum
June 6th, 2005, 3:22 pm
Forum: Technical Forum
Topic: MLE for complicated stochatic process
Replies: 5
Views: 147535

MLE for complicated stochatic process

Hello People,My question is how do i obtain MLE estimates for a stochastic process where the pdf cannot be written in a functional form(not obvious how to write)
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