Tabla de Contenidos: “…5.2 Short Selling -- 5.3 Assumptions and Notation -- 5.4 Forward Price for an Investment Asset -- 5.5 Known Income -- 5.6 Known Yield -- 5.7 Valuing Forward Contracts -- 5.8 Are Forward Prices and Futures Prices Equal? -- 5.9 Futures Prices of Stock Indices -- 5.10 Forward and Futures Contracts on Currencies -- 5.11 Futures on Commodities -- 5.12 The Cost of Carry -- 5.13 Delivery Options -- 5.14 Futures Prices and Expected Spot Prices -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Quiz -- Practice Questions -- Further Questions -- Chapter 6: Interest Rates Futures -- 6.1 Day Count and Quotation Conventions -- 6.2 Treasury Bond Futures -- 6.3 Eurodollar Futures -- 6.4 Duration -- 6.5 Duration-Based Hedging Strategies Using Futures -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Quiz -- Practice Questions -- Further Questions -- Chapter 7: Swaps -- 7.1 Mechanics of Interest Rate Swaps -- 7.2 Day Count Issues -- 7.3 Confirmations -- 7.4 The Comparative-Advantage Argument -- 7.5 Valuation of Interest Rate Swaps -- 7.6 How the Value Changes through Time -- 7.7 Fixed-for-Fixed Currency Swaps -- 7.8 Valuation of Fixed-for-Fixed Currency Swaps -- 7.9 Other Currency Swaps -- 7.10 Credit Risk -- 7.11 Credit Default Swaps -- 7.12 Other Types of Swaps -- Summary -- Further Reading -- Quiz -- Practice Questions -- Further Questions -- Chapter 8: Securitization and the Credit Crisis of 2007 -- 8.1 Securitization -- 8.2 The U.S. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…13.2.1 Creating and Displaying Image Histogram -- 13.2.2 Histogram Equalization -- 13.3 Operations on Images -- 13.3.1 Linear Spatial Filtering -- 13.3.2 Spatial Noise Filtering -- 13.3.3 Morphological Image Processing -- 13.4 Point, Line, and Edge Detection -- 13.4.1 Point Detection -- 13.4.2 Line Detection -- 13.4.3 Edge Detection -- 13.5 Thresholding -- 13.5.1 Global Thresholding -- 13.5.2 Local Thresholding -- Programming Tips and Pitfalls -- Summary -- Exercises -- Index…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…EM-test in normal mixture models with equal variance -- 6.6.3. EM-test in normal mixture models with unequal variance -- 6.7. …”

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