The Normal Distribution and Its Limits

The bell curve is the right model where outcomes are additive and independent, and the wrong one wherever they multiply or feed back. Finance is full of the second kind, so variance and correlation understate what can actually happen. Using the Gaussian outside its domain is the single most expensive modelling error in markets.

7 books · 2 people behind it · 3 resources

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  1. Naked StatisticsCharles Wheelan, 2013
  2. The Black SwanNassim Nicholas Taleb, 2007
  3. The Misbehavior of MarketsBenoit Mandelbrot, Richard L. Hudson, 2004

The people behind it 2

Each person holds a book in this entry or names it in their own tags.

Academics 2

Nassim Nicholas Taleb2 books here
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Emanuel Derman1 book here

Resources 3

Books 7

Athanasios Papoulis, S. Unnikrishna Pillai · 1965 · The standard engineering text on probability and stochastic processes
Emanuel Derman · 2011 · A quant on confusing models with reality, in finance and life