Mathematical Principles and Quantitative Finance · 07. février 2024
Explore the hypercube's critical role in CDO risk modeling within quantitative finance. A hypercube extends a 2D square or 3D cube into an N-dimensional space, each axis representing a financial asset's cumulative distribution in copula functions. It's pivotal for visualizing complex dependencies in a CDO, where each axis indicates the default probability of different assets.
01. juillet 2023
The Moment Generating Function (MGF) is designed to provide insights into the entire range of possible values of a random variable. It's a mathematical tool that captures information about the distribution of a random variable, including its moments (like mean, variance, skewness, kurtosis, etc.). Discrete Time: In discrete time, the random variable takes on distinct values at specific points or intervals. When calculating the expected value for a discrete random variable (X), we sum up the...