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The Fat Tail: The Power of Political Knowledge for Strategic Investing (Oxford University Press: 2009) is a book written by political scientists Ian Bremmer and Preston Keat. Bremmer and Keat are the president and research director respectively of Eurasia Group , a global political risk consultancy.
Fat tails in market return distributions also have some behavioral origins (investor excessive optimism or pessimism leading to large market moves) and are therefore studied in behavioral finance. In marketing , the familiar 80-20 rule frequently found (e.g. "20% of customers account for 80% of the revenue") is a manifestation of a fat tail ...
Fat-tailed sheep at a livestock market in Kashgar, China. The fat-tailed sheep is a general type of domestic sheep known for their distinctive large tails and hindquarters. . Fat-tailed sheep breeds comprise approximately 25% of the world's sheep population, [1] and are commonly found in northern parts of Africa, the Middle East, and various Central Asian countries, Afghanistan, Pakistan and ...
The Fat Years is a 2009 Chinese science fiction novel written by Chan Koonchung.First published in traditional Chinese versions in 2009 in both Hong Kong by Oxford University Press and also in Taiwan by the Rye Field Publishing Company under the title 'Prosperous Age: China in the year 2013' (盛世—中國2013年), [1] to date it has never been published in mainland China.
Fat tail and Heavy Tail are the same concept, however Heavy Tail is more politically correct. No, Fat tail and Heavy tail are not the same concept. A Heavy tail is a distribution with a tail that is heavier than an Exponential. Examples of Heavy tails: LogNormal, Weibull, Zipf, Cauchy, Student’s t, Frechet, Pareto, etc.
After spending years climbing China's ultra-competitive academic ladder, "rotten-tail kids" are discovering that their qualifications are failing to secure them jobs in a bleak economy. Their ...
1850 is the book's starting point for China's contemporary history. [3] Starting in chapter six, the book reviews China's turbulent 20th century. [8] The book discusses Empress Dowager Cixi. [4] Fenby chronicles the Qing government's insufficient reaction to local and global catastrophes led to the 1911 Revolution.
The Divination by Astrological and Meteorological Phenomena (Chinese: 天文氣象雜占; pinyin: Tiān Wén Qì Xiàng Zá Zhàn), also known as Book of Silk is an ancient astronomy silk manuscript compiled by Chinese astronomers of the Western Han dynasty (202 BC – 9 AD) and found in the Mawangdui of Changsha, Hunan, China in 1973.