Research is the strong suit of this book about darkly handsome Richard Ramirez, who terrorized Los Angeles for 14 months in 1984-85 with his penchant for breaking into homes dressed all in black, where he fiercely assaulted, sodomized, robbed, and (in 13 cases) murdered his victims. Carlo spent more than 100 hours interviewing Ramirez on death row, more than a month in El Paso, Texas, talking to Ramirez's family and friends, and another month hanging out with the two detectives who solved the case. He made visits to all 19 crime scenes in the middle of the night.
Markov Chain Monte Carlo in Practice (Interdisciplinary Statistics)Markov Chain Monte Carlo in Practice is a thorough, clear introduction to the methodology and applications of this simple idea with enormous potential. It shows the importance of MCMC in real applications, such as archaeology, astronomy, biostatistics, genetics, epidemiology, and image analysis, and provides an excellent base for MCMC to be applied to other fields as well. The examples range from the simplest application, Gibbs sampling, to more complex applications.
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"There is no book on the market to compare with Dr Jaeckel’s. All the techniques, the tricks, the pitfalls of this important methodology are covered in detail and with great insight. This is no book on abstract theory, Dr Jaeckel is a practitioner who has implemented every single one of these ideas. He has done all the hard work, so you don’t have to.” Paul Wilmott
“Few expert practitioners also have the academic expertise to match Peter Jaeckel’s in this area, let alone take the trouble to write a most accessible, comprehensive and yet self contained text. This book is a delight to read and contains a wealth of information that is essential for anyone involved with implementing Monte Carlo methods in finance.” Professor Carol Alexander,ISMA Centre, University of Reading, UK
”This book is a very welcome addition to the growing literature on applied quantitative methods in finance. Dr Jaeckel has done the field a service in combining both a thorough review of ’standard’ material with techniques that were learned on the job as a quant at top financial institutions. Michael Curran, Quantin’ Leap
