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by wjens1
March 4th, 2009, 9:33 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Copulas and dependence, and more - need advice: publish? or….
Replies: 36
Views: 89320

Copulas and dependence, and more - need advice: publish? or….

So much derision for the 'copula model' (whether it's this copula or that), which I think is missing the point.Would you regard the correlation coefficient as a 'model'?
by wjens1
February 24th, 2009, 9:07 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Copulas and dependence, and more - need advice: publish? or….
Replies: 36
Views: 89320

Copulas and dependence, and more - need advice: publish? or….

QuoteOriginally posted by: rcohenwjens1,Clearly, between the time you wrote the two comments below, you went through some traumatic experience, followed by a rude awakening. Welcome to reality!Absolutely - I found the things I was looking for.
by wjens1
January 20th, 2009, 5:51 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Copulas and dependence, and more - need advice: publish? or….
Replies: 36
Views: 89320

Copulas and dependence, and more - need advice: publish? or….

<t>yeah, I’m tired of it all now. I’m tired of justifying my results (esp. to myself), I’m tired of trying to be clever about using the results, about profiting from my work, of the paranoia about others claiming credit for my stuff, and all the things in my original post. I’m so tired that if I can...
by wjens1
January 20th, 2009, 5:12 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Copulas and dependence, and more - need advice: publish? or….
Replies: 36
Views: 89320

Copulas and dependence, and more - need advice: publish? or….

why recommend trying to get a paper published, if the chances are that it will be thrown out?
by wjens1
February 17th, 2007, 11:36 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Copulas and dependence, and more - need advice: publish? or….
Replies: 36
Views: 89320

Copulas and dependence, and more - need advice: publish? or….

<t>Thanks guys, and thanks for the PMs too.Quote"It helps you to get respectful and well-paid position in the future." I'm not sure that an *academic* position is a particular aim of mine... don't you have to teach students or something?Quote There are no patents in science to protect your ideas. bu...
by wjens1
January 23rd, 2007, 10:54 am
Forum: General Forum
Topic: Copulas and dependence, and more - need advice: publish? or….
Replies: 36
Views: 89320

Copulas and dependence, and more - need advice: publish? or….

<t>Hi Quant community, I’d appreciate your advice.I’ve been researching copulas and dependence relationships for a couple of years as part of a maths research degree.A couple of months ago I came I realised a very simple and elegant view of things that has actually been staring me in the face all th...
by wjens1
April 23rd, 2003, 6:42 am
Forum: Off Topic
Topic: female quants
Replies: 170
Views: 204175

female quants

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: DCFCI've actually invested (wasted) quite a lot of my time in getting women into numerate jobs.This has ranged from academia to direct lobbying.A couple of years ago I determined my team would hire a woman. We simply could not find one that I would consider employing. O...
by wjens1
December 15th, 2002, 9:34 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: university of melbourne
Replies: 3
Views: 189659

university of melbourne

From a Unimelb student: if you're interested in the quanty-side, go via the Maths dept, not via Finance...