Uncertainty and risk are issues that virtually every business analyst must deal with, sooner or later. The consequences of not properly estimating and dealing with risk can be devastating. There’s a ...

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Vector computers provide a new tool for management scientists. The application of that tool requires thinking in vector mode. This mode is examined in the context of Monte Carlo experiments with ...

This repository contains MATLAB scripts and functions for solving a series of Monte Carlo simulation exercises. These exercises cover fundamental methods such as Monte Carlo integration, random ...

Numbers are rather useful. This is unfortunate, because they're also rather confusing. Our brains have a hard time making sense of lists of numbers, so we employ an imaginary friend to help us — the ...

If one had asked a financial adviser 18 months ago for retirement-planning guidance, there is a good chance he would have run a "Monte Carlo" simulation. This calculation method, as it is commonly ...

Monte Carlo Simulations are a modeling tool used to simulate reality and calculate probabilities of a portfolio supporting a certain withdrawal rate. With the market collapse of 2008, however, many ...