Forecasting in Financial and Sports Gambling Markets —— Adaptive Drift Modeling

----- 金融与体育赌搏预测：漂移修正模型

ISBN: 9780470484524 出版年：2011 页码：280 William S Mallios Wiley

Preface. 1.Introduction. 1.1 Favorable Betting Scenarios. 1.2 Gambling Shocks. 1.3 The Dark Side of Sports: The Fixes. 2. Market Perspectives: Through a Glass Darkly. 2.1 Changing Paradigms. 2.2 Modeling Commentaries. 2.3 Sports Hedge Funds. 2.4 Gambling Markets: Prohibition, Repeal and Taxation. 2.5 Quantifying the Madness of Crowds in Sports Gambling Markets. 2.6 Statistical Shocks: Alias Variables. 3. Opacity and Present Day Variables. 3.1 Dilemmas between Social and Economic Efficiency. 3.2 Towards a More Visible Hidden Hand. 3.3 Hedge Funds and Galapagos. 3.4 Lotteries: Market for Losers. 4. Adaptive Modeling Concepts in Dynamic Markets. 4.1 Quant Funds and Algorithmic Trading. 4.2 Market Volatility and Fat-Trailed Distributions. 4.3 Adaptive ARMA(1,1) Drift Processes. 4.4 Time Varying Volatility. 5. Studies in Japanese Candlestick Charts. 5.1 Bullish and Bearish Patterns from Chartist Perspectives. 5.2 Black Monday. 5.3 A Matter of Alleged Insider Trading. 5.4 Commodity Bubbles and Volatility. 5.5 Short Selling. 5.6 Terrorist Attacks and the Markets. 5.7 A Hollywood Romance: Spiderman and Tinkerbell. 5.8 Copenhagen and Climate Change: Exxon Mobile Buys XTO Energy. 6. Pseudo Candlestick Graphics for Major League Baseball. 6.1 The 2008 World Series: Philadelphia Versus Tampa Bay. 6.2 The 2008 Chicago Cubs: Visions of 1908 Heroics. 6.3 A Strange Set of Coincidences: A Plate Umpire's Affinity for a Pitcher. 7. Single Equation Adaptive Drift Modeling. 7.1 Adaptive ARMA Processes. 7.2 Variable Selection: Identifying the Reduced Model. 7.3 Reduced Model Estimation: Single Equations. 7.4 Reduced Model Empirical Bayesian Estimation: Single Equations. 7.5 Single Equation Volatility Modeling: Adaptive GARCH Processes. 7.6 Modeling Monetary Growth Data. 7.7 Modeling GNP Deflator Growth. 8. Single Equation Modeling: Sports Gambling Markets. 8.1 Effects of Interactive Gambling Shocks. 8.2 End of an Era: Modeling Profile of the 1988-89 Los Angeles Lakers. 8.3 Spread Betting. 8.4 Modeling Profile of a Dream Team: The 1989-90 San Francisco 49ers. 8.5 Major League Baseball: A Data Intensive Game. 8.6 While Still Under the Curse: Modeling Profile of the 1990 Red Sox. 8.7 Portrait of Controversy: Modeling Profile of Roger Clemens with the 1990 Red Sox. 8.8 Pitcher of the Year in 1990: Modeling Profile of the Oakland's Bob Gibson. 9. Simultaneous Financial Time Series. 9.1 The Cruse of Higher Dimensionality. 9.2 From Candlesticks to Cointegration. 9.3 Cointegration in Terms of Autoregressive Processes. 9.4 Estimating Disequilibria through Factor Analysis. 9.5 Simultaneous Time Series: Adaptive Drift Modeling. 9.6 Simultaneous Time Series: Adaptive Volatility Modeling. 9.7 Exploratory Modeling: Marathon Oil Company. 9.8 The High Tech Bubble of 2000. 9.9 Twenty-Five Standard Deviation Moves. 9.10 The March 2009 Nadir. 10. Modeling Cointegrated Time Series Associated with NBA and NFL Games. 10.1 Modeling Transitions. 10.2 The 2007-08 NY Giants: As Unexpected as Katrina. 10.3 Misery for the Patriot Faithful. 10.4 The Pittsburgh Steelers in Super Bowl 2005. 10.6 Miami's First NBA Title: 2005-06. 10.7 The 2006-07 San Antonio Spurs: Unexpected Titlists. 10.8 Monitoring MBA Referee Performances. 11. Categorical Forecasting. 11.1 Fisher's Discriminant Function. 11.2 Bayesian Discriminant Analysis. 11.3 Logistic Regression Analysis. 11.4 Allocating Betting Monies in the Sports Gambling Markets. 12. Financial/Mathematical Illiteracy and Adolescent Problem Gambling: Epidemics More Damaging Than the 1918 Influenza Pandemic. 12.1 The Call for Financial/Mathematical Literacy in 21st Century America. 12.2 Data, Information and the Information Age. 12.3 The Companion Epidemic of Adolescent Problem Gambling. 12.4 Results of a Pilot Study on Adolescent Problem Gambling and Financial /Mathematical Literacy. 13. The Influenza Futures Markets. 13.1 Markets for Expert Information Retrieval. 13.2 Adaptive Seasonal Time Series Modeling. 13.3 Forecasting Weekly Influenza/Pneumonia Deaths. Index. List of Figures.