Predictive Modelling with Linear Regression – 1

Linear filterLinear regression is an old friend for me. I had made my first acquaintance with it already at the high school. It appeared and re-appeared again in several lectures at the University such as probability, signals and systems, statistics, digital filters and so on. I used it for both my semester and diploma thesis along with neural networks and genetic algorithms in the context of artificial intelligence. I used it even after the university in my professional life; for performance estimations in direct marketing, and for forecasts in financial planning to name some examples. Continue reading

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Analytical Consolidation of Reporting Requirements – 1

Analytical consolidation process In this article, I will try the o give the general idea about the analytical consolidation of reporting requirements. I will dive into more technical details like mathematical notations, meta data and rules in following related articles.

This is a new concept -well at least for me- because I developed it. Accordingly, some terminology and table notations used in this and following articles are also new. Similar concepts might have already been developed by someone else independently (actually there must be similar concepts, because this is a quite intuitive and common sense concept), but so far I couldn’t find anything in that vein. Continue reading

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Book review: The Secret Life of Tigers by Valmik Thapar

About the author (WikiPedia):
Valmik Thapar (1952 -) is an Indian natural historian and foremost among Tiger conservationists. He is the author of 14 books and several articles, and has produced a range of programs for television. Today he is one of the India’s most respected wildlife experts and conservationists, having produced and narrated documentaries on India’s natural habitat for such media as the BBC, Animal Planet, Discovery and National Geographic.

I have got a copy of Secret Life of Tigers from the public library of Zürich. It is the 1999 edition, first published in 1989. Continue reading

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Want to buy exclusive publishing rights for tiger photographs

To professional and amateur photographers:

For finaquant, I am looking for interesting tiger (Panthera tigris) photographs of exceptional quality. Please contact me if you think you have such photographs that are not yet published anywhere, or put for sale in some stock photography sites. Continue reading

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