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Stochastic Processes for Insurance and Finance (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics) (Hardcover)

by Tomasz Rolski (Author), Hanspeter Schmidli (Author), Volker Schmidt (Author), Jozef Teugels (Author) "Let us start out with a concrete example ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 680 pages
  • Publisher: WileyBlackwell (21 Jan 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0471959251
  • ISBN-13: 978-0471959250
  • Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15.5 x 4.8 cm
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1.0 out of 5 stars Do not believe wileys back cover information, 14 Sep 2006
Wiley informs you that:
(1)it contains practical examples with real life data
(2)numerical and algorithmic procedures
(3)principel concepts of insurance and finance.

Let's look at these claims:
(1) The number af practical examples with real life data is very limited. In chapter 6 and 7 Renewal processes/Markov chains there is exactly one example with real life data (on a 100 pages 1 page).
Indeed there are more headers titled examples but these illustrate the use of theorems to proof additional theoretical results.
You won't find any text on non-life insurance models for health care or disability insurance. As a matter of fact: you won't find the term non-life insurance in the index.
(2) Numerical and algorithmic procedures.
Generally we should think about this in terms of:
Numerical worked out examples, procedures devided in steps or pseudocode. You won't find any of these, only rather vague and very short descriptions.
As a matter of fact applications of MarkovChain MonteCarlo methods are totally absent.
(3) Principel concepts of insurance an finance?
This is rather odd, considering that references to non-life insurance are largely missing.....
So what's in the book?
The book is largely a book on the theory of stochastic processes. It mainly consists of theorems and proofs. So it will be of interest for students of mathematical statistics [...]

Finally the literature references are sometimes a bit odd.
For instance no reference is to be found for:
Flemming and Harrington: Counting processes for survival data.
Lawless: Methods for lifetime data.
Haberman and Pitto: Models for disability insurance.

INDEED I FEEL CHEATED BY WILEY. IT HAS IN MY VIEW DELIBERATLY PROVIDED MISLEADING INFORMATION.
p.m. it is not as if I can't read or understand this book: I have a degree in econometrics.
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