Performing Financial Studies: A Methodological Cookbook
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Ideal for both reference and self-study, this unique volume goes beyond simply explaining how statistical procedures should be done, to showing in "no-detail-left-out" fashion what should be done at each step—much like following a recipe in a cookbook. Additionally, raw financial data sets are used in the examples so each method is related directly to finance and to the specific problems financial data presents. Statistical procedures related exclusively to finance (and often only found tersely described in academic journals) are also covered. Features screen captures in various computer programs (Excel, SPSS, or EViews). Understanding Your Data. Preparing Your Data for Analysis. Correlation. Autocorrelation. Partial Autocorrelation. Autocorrelation for Nonparametric Data (Wald-Wolfowitz Runs Test). T-test. ANOVA. Regression. Calculating Beta. Measuring Predictive Ability. Event Studies. Bootstrapping. AVRM (Added Variable Regression Model). Cointegration. ARIMA Models. Unit Root Test. Granger Causality. ARCH/GARCH. Programming the Black-Scholes Model. Programming the Binomial Option Pricing Model. Sections within the Financial Study. Bringing Output into Word. For Financial Research Analysts, Financial Consultants, Mutual Fund Managers, Financial Managers, etc.

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4 out of 5 stars Practical roadmap to analytical success.......2004-09-14

This book offers a Practical roadmap to analytical success for the novice of financial studies. It fills the (very) large gap between the sophisticated academic literature and the software tools (Excel, SPSS, Eviews) students need to use once they venture to explore financial data. The book guides the user in an informative and straigthforward manner to get results from the software. Concepts and statistical output are explained (but not too extensively) on the way. This leaves ample room for lecturers to enrich the book's tutorials with their own material.
A minor criticism is that the book deals with most subjects rather briefly. Surely, this is to prevent ending up with a 1.000 page book. But on the other hand, I recommend that the author should write similar titles in the same manner but more dedicated to particular subjects, e.g. financial time series.

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              Gliomas and farm pesticide exposure in women: the Upper Midwest Health Study.(Research: Article) : An article from: Environmental Health Perspectives
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                    The Language of Cells: Life as Seen Under the Microscope
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                    With this beautiful book, Spencer Nadler takes us into the remarkable world of cells–and into the lives of people whose behavior is affected by the cells seen under his microscope. After twenty-five years as a surgical pathologist, Nadler began to miss interacting with the people whose cells he studied. And so, he came out from behind his microscope and as a writer began to focus on people as well as on their cells, examining in this unusual book how a person’s life and spirit–and cells–coexist.

                    In the diminutive landscape of the microscope, a young patient’s sickle cells look like harmless apples and bananas, but the impact they have on him and his mother is acute. Under Nadler’microscope, normal breast cells look like pink hydrangeas to the remarkably spirited Hanna and her breast cancer cells like distorted hula-hoops. Among the other people we meet are an orchestra conductor who must choose between the rhythms of his music and those of his heart; an obese woman who must learn to get along with her fat cells as she copes with bariatric surgery; two people with early Alzheimer’s disease who fall in love and decide to live together despite the microscopic changes in their brains. In The Language of Cells, Spencer Nadler illuminates in lyrical prose “the quiet heroics of everyday people” as cells and the spirit contribute to the beauty of the human continuum.

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                    5 out of 5 stars The Language of Surprise.......2003-12-03

                    Being a suspense-thriller freak, this is not the kind of book I would read but, given to me as a gift, I dutifully picked it up, thinking I'd read the first story and put it down. Wrong!
                    The stories are about any one of us or someone we may know, written in a very readable way that any non-medical person can easily understand. It is as intriguing as any thriller. I lent it to a friend, an oncology nurse, who lent it to her boss, who lent it to another doctor and so it's been making the rounds. I don't think I'll ever see it again and have ordered another copy that I won't lend: this is a book you want in your home library to pick up every now and then for it's inspiration and plain beauty.
                    Spencer Nadler is the kind of doctor we want and need to take care of us...his insight, his feelings, his empathy, knowledge, care and concern for his patients is there from page one. The stories are heart-wrenching and heart-warming, moving and inspiring and even though the book is not yet available here in Israel, I found it worth the expense to order several from abroad to give as gifts here.

                    5 out of 5 stars Praise for an observant, compassionate doctor.......2002-05-18

                    Every once in a while I pick up a book or choose to purchase a book on the basis of a slim review, or because the book itself looked interesting. I tend to buy books in bulk, often more than one at a time. This was one such instance where four books were bought about two months ago. This one was put aside, as I had to finish two classes and do work for the two computer web sites I work for. The other books were read and discarded, appreciated for what they were...then given to the library so others may enjoy them to. This particular book, from which I expected little, will remain in my own personal library to be lent to the few who I know can appreciate both the medicine and the literacy of this particular doctor-author.

                    Other reviewers have outlined the stories of this book. It is immediate recognized that it is a different book...it's table of content is not a one-page outline of the chapter titles. Rather each chapter is outline by a large photograph of the cell types dealt with in that chapter. The 'name' of the chapter is in small typeface below or adjacent to the electron photograph. This warns the reader that whatever they had expected from this book, is liable to be different from what they get. Thankfully, this is so...

                    Nadler is a pathologist, a man who devotes his life to diagnosing the secrets of the individual units of our bodies. Pathologists are decoders basically. They read and tell other surgeons and doctors what they have biopsied or what they have seen. Pathologists rarely have intimate contact with the people whose cells they have examined. I worked in two neuropathology labs for almost six years. It is fascinating work, but other than your fellow lab workers, there is no human contact.

                    Somehow, from reading Dr. Nadler's book, I will guarantee that this physician has made it a point throughout his life and career to purposely remain involve with individuals. Unlike some doctors who I know have much more contact with patients, this doctor refuses to consider the cells alone, without considering the person. Perhaps because he is not involved in the conveyor belt of modern medicine, he has not lost that compassion or steeled himself against 'feeling' too much. For that alone, he deserves accolades.

                    His language, his metaphors, the observations he makes are far beyond the abilities of most doctors, indeed beyond the abilities of most people period. Like Oliver Sacks, he brings attention to a disease through the person who is affected by that disease. In doing so, readers become aware of the courage these individuals choose to face their illness with. So many times in labs and hospitals, we forget that what we see under the microscope was once deeply embedded in an individual. Nadler reminds us exquisitely of that, and in his writing, he brings an understanding of not just the disease, but of those who must deal with these particular disease. The story told, the picture drawn...may start with the cell that he originally focused on, but Nadler quickly changes the focus to the person.

                    An outstanding book by an outstanding person...

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                    5 out of 5 stars Drama under the microscope.......2001-12-13

                    In beautiful and clear prose, this book depicts the drama in interpreting a sick patient's cells. But it is also the story of one surgical pathologist's journey to find out what is human about his patients and himself. It is a touching read and a fascinating look behind the curtain into a highly specialized hospital laboratory.

                    5 out of 5 stars Exquisitely rendered tales of human disease.......2001-11-29

                    Spencer Nadler is a pathologist who would be a clinical physician. He is a doctor of medicine who would be a literary artist. He demonstrates in these exquisitely wrought pages a deep sense of identification and empathy with the very real human beings whose cells he sees in his microscope. He writes about intersecting with their lives in a style both concrete and moving so that we cannot help but also identify with the heart-wrenching experience of disease.

                    So there's an irony in the title and a kind of strange misdirection: Dr. Nadler's concentration is NOT on cellular life, but instead on the psychological, existential and spiritual aspects of people whose cells have gone bad.

                    He begins with the story of a 35-year-old woman who has breast cancer. She wants to see the cancerous cells in the microscope. Nadler, whose daily work is performing biopsies, especially surgical biopsies made on the fly as the patient is etherized upon a table, obliges, and thereby begins a relationship with her and her illness that goes well beyond what can be experienced through the lenses of his "research-quality German microscope made by Zeiss." She sees landscapes and metaphors in the dead and dying cells, and Nadler is once again reminded of the human experience of disease.

                    Next is the chapter entitled simply "Fat" about a woman suffering from morbid obesity. She undergoes the Rouxen-Y gastric bypass, a gastrointestinal reconstruction surgery that miniaturizing her stomach from a capacity of 1,700 milliliters to 35 milliliters. (I have a question not answered in the text: why did her stomach have to be SO small? Couldn't they have left her with say, two or three hundred milliliters?) The procedure works and she goes from over 360 pounds to 180, but she cannot eat more than a few ounces of food at any one setting and she must--as Nadler so beautifully phrases it on page 39-swallow only "bonsaied boluses" and take "great care to chew them to a flow."

                    "Fat" is quite frankly one of the best medical essays I have ever read. But I am not alone in admiring the artistry of Nadler's carefully constructed prose. Two of the essays in this book, "Brain Cell Memories" and "An Old Soldier," the first about brain tumors, and the second about a 75-year-old man who has been a paraplegic for 55 years, are included in, respectively, The Best American Essays, 2001 and The Best American Essays, 1999. I was particularly impressed with "An Old Soldier," in which Nadler's clear, stark prose reveals the courage, strength and sheer cussed determination it takes for WWII vet Sam Patterson to live when "His lower trunk and limbs, his bowels, bladder, and genitals, are permanently incommunicado, shutting him off from the rest of his body like a demented mind." (p. 150)

                    The other chapters are "Heart Rhythms," which is essentially a heroic portrait of conductor Mehli Mehta; "Early Alzheimer's: A View from Within" which features AD-sufferer Morris Friedell who "can crystalize the life that remains and devise ways to enhance it" (for example, he takes notes and crosses off the tasks and experiences as they are lived); and "The Burden of Sickle Cells" about a boy that Nadler befriends who has the sickle cell disease.

                    The last chapter in the book is an appreciation of hospice work and grief counseling with a focus on Nadler's friend, Brad Deford, a chaplain to the dying. Nadler follows him on his rounds and experiences first hand how comforting it can be to have someone help with the emotional and spiritual preparations. Nadler refers to one old couple, each facing eminent death, as having become, "in their married years together...two nuclei in a single cell." His final words before the Epilogue are: "How awesome is this cellular ride, so steeped in mysterious efficiency. But it is the human dying, so urgent and inevitable, that is graven unto me."

                    As can be seen, Nadler is a very fine prose stylist, and his book is to be compared favorably with the best works written by practicing doctors from what I might call "the medical tale genre." Some recent examples include Jerome Groopman's Second Opinions: Stories of Intuition and Choice in the Changing World of Medicine (2000) and of course the works of Oliver Sacks, e.g., An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales (1995) and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and other clinical tales (1987).

                    5 out of 5 stars Life and Death Matters.......2001-11-28

                    There's more to disease than the cells a surgical pathologist sees under a microscope. These cells can nail a diagnosis, but tell us nothing about the person suffering from a disease. Spencer Nadler in The Language of Cells reveals the complexities of a cell as well as the human patient whose diagnosis can mean life or death. Nadler combines the insight of a scientist with the language of a poet as he weaves the stories of patients he has known. Disease sometimes takes on a benign form as we read of the individual people in this volume, whose illness brings them closer to life as they draw nearer death. Even death, in the chapter, "Dying Matters," can instruct and inspire. Also inspiring is the story of Alzheimer patients who learn ways to enrich their lives despite their increasing loss of memory. And who can help but admire the courage of an African American boy who lives with the searing pain of sickle cell anemia, or the woman with breast cancer who asks to see her cancer cells with her own eyes? As a special bonus are color plates that show the unexpected beauty of the cells Nadler sees every day in the course of his work. I plan to give this book to my friends during the holiday season. I know they will enjoy it as much as I did.
                    The Language of Cells: Life as seen under the microscope
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                      The Language of Cells: Life as seen under the microscope
                      spencer Nader
                      Manufacturer: Random House
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                      Binding: Paperback
                      ASIN: B000KDWT5Q

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                      One physicians view on various medical life issues from a cellular level.
                      The Language of Cells: Life As Seen Under the Microscope
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                        The Language of Cells: Life As Seen Under the Microscope
                        Spencer Nadler
                        Manufacturer: Random House
                        ProductGroup: Book
                        Binding: Paperback
                        ASIN: B000OFK9Q6

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