Risk Revealed: Cautionary Tales, Understanding and Communication

by Paul Embrechts, Valérie Chavez-Demoulin, Marius Hofert

Book Overview

Explore the concept of risk through numerous examples and their statistical modeling, traveling from a historical perspective all the way to an up-to-date technical analysis. Written with a wide readership in mind, this book begins with accounts of a selection of major historical disasters, such as the North Sea flood of 1953 and the L'Aquila earthquake. These tales serve to set the scene and to motivate the second part of the book, which describes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009299816
• ISBN13: 9781009299817
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.0" x 9.9"