I'm a self-taught programmer with an engineering background. I'm now
working on systems for market trading. I'm finding GREAT resources in
academic journals on finance and economics. Unfortunately, the math
is a little above my head - not the basic theory, but the NOTATION.
Does anyone know of a good BOOK or (less desirably) a web site that
QUICKLY and EFFICIENTLY describes advanced math NOTATION for someone
with slightly above a high school level of math understanding.
Ultimately, i want to be able to TRANSLATE the MATH NOTATION I find in
journals into computer code. I don't need to understand the PROOF or
the specific details of how the researcher got to his conclusion - I
just need a way to understand the notation enough to be able to create
code.
Most of the papers that I?m reading are based on statistics and calculus.
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Request for Question Clarification by
answerguru-ga
on
28 Feb 2005 16:35 PST
Hi chazz-ga,
I can point you to one book that actually includes pseudocode for
mathematical concepts. This book, however, is focused on algorithms -
it has served as a great reference for myself. Let me know if this is
something you'd be interested in as an official answer, or if you are
strictly focused on statistics and calculus as your fields of
interest.
answerguru-ga
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Clarification of Question by
chazz-ga
on
28 Feb 2005 16:50 PST
I have a book called algorithms in c++. Is that the book you are referring to?
More specifically, I need a tutorial on NOTATION. Especially as used
in formulations for Statistics problems.
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Request for Question Clarification by
maniac-ga
on
28 Feb 2005 17:01 PST
Hello Chazz,
Just to be sure, what kind of analysis / math are you dealing with. For example:
- pareto analysis
- demand systems such as linear, almost ideal, and rotterdam
- elastic and inelastic demand
- fixed and variable costs of production
- risk analysis / impact on decision making
- statistics (mean, standard deviation, correlation coefficients, etc.)
Some concepts can be quite simple to describe once you get past the
economic terms (and do not involve complex math). Others can be quite
complex and it may be important to stress certain concepts such as
error analysis to ensure the result you get is meaningful.
The book that answerguru describes may be helpful but if you cannot
translate the economic concepts into the math algorithms, the coding
examples will not help.
--Maniac
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Clarification of Question by
chazz-ga
on
02 Mar 2005 11:50 PST
I found one site that is CLOSE to what i'm looking for. This
describes the use of NOTATION. Again, I don't need theory as much as
a guide to notation use. I would like something a little more
detailed with a visual index to symbols.
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/topics/Notation.html
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