by David Anthonio | Jun 15, 2021 | Econometrics, Society, Weather and Climate
For hundreds, maybe thousands of years humans have attempted to accurately predict the future. One good example of this was Nostradamus. Nostradamus wrote ‘Les Prophéties’ where he put together 942 vague statements claiming to describe future events. Some even insist...
by David Anthonio | Apr 15, 2021 | Mathematics, Other, Psychology, Statistics
Let’s suppose that we have a game with two players. One is a person that will make a decision and the other is a supercomputer that will try and predict that decision beforehand. This computer has been tested many times and the testers have worked out that the...
by David Anthonio | Mar 9, 2021 | Econometrics, Statistics
In statistics we are often estimating parameters and then, using some hypothesis test, we can find out if we should either reject our null hypothesis or not. Now in these tests we almost always rely on some known distribution of a so-called test statistic. Let us...
by David Anthonio | Nov 10, 2020 | Econometrics, Economy, Mathematics
The Lotka-Volterra model is mostly referred to as the predator-prey model. This model is used to describe lots of commonly encountered ecological processes. One of the more famous ones is the rabbit and the fox model. This is a cyclical relation between the amount of...
by David Anthonio | Oct 1, 2020 | Econometrics, Economy, Finance
Every now and then, in the news you hear a new term. For me that was the term ‘stock split’. Apple and Tesla both went through a so-called stock split last month, but what does this mean for the shareholders? And what about the companies themselves? In this short...
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