Financial Section Overview

The site map below shows suggested pathways through the material on this site.  Each page or set of pages below contains a link to the next logical section as well as link back to this page.  The map is designed so that you can easily jump around; if something seems too difficult at first, move to another set of pages.  Everything on the site has been created with Mathematica and there is a downloadable notebook for each page that can be used to experiment with your own inputs and data.  The software page links to free Mathematica stable distribution software that is used in the notebooks.  Each notebook is self contained, but those that use stable distributions also require the installation of the StableM software package.  The notebooks will eventually be upgraded to also show some features dynamically.  If you get lost, there is an index to all the pages.

The path starting with "Returns" starts very simply and hopefully somewhat intuitively leads into the sections that require some feeling for statistical distributions.  For users with some background in statistics a reasonable starting point might be "Fitting Market Data."  The path starting with "Stable Distributions" presents some basic information about stable distributions.  Mathematica users will be able to download the notebooks and explore the algorithms in detail by opening the closed cells.  Eventually the more technical parts of the algorithms will each get a page branching off the stable distribution path.  Occasionally you will run into an "Under Construction" page where something is not yet ready; we will also use the "Under Construction" page to point to something that is new and not yet in the main pathway system.  The "Under Construction" link can also be found in the index.

Enjoy your tour!

Email comments and questions to Bob Rimmer.

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