By contrast, the quants created mathematical models to figure out which country had the best shot.
Some companies are waiting for quants on how exactly social media works before they experiment.
Skeptical quants have found that the results they received from NYSE Technologies seem to be meeting their needs.
It ranks near the top of my quant screen and there are other quants that like it as well.
As is their habit, the quants hunted for hidden relationships in prior matches.
On the other-hand, there are quants that will survive and who believe that inefficiencies (over the long term) will exist in the market.
Yabuki is pushing his quants to come up with a more accurate system for assessing the risk of one consumer compared with another.
On August 10th, the stocks that quants had favoured suddenly rebounded.
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The presence of leveraged traders such as quants at their heart means conditions can now turn, at the flick of a switch, from stability to panic.
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In a way, the crisis stemmed from the quants' success.
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Quants, hedge-funds and academics love analyzing that sort of stuff.
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While that surge of goodwill for stats has helped drive the quants' interest in the Oscars, the forecasters say the two votes are more different than they are alike.
Though he accepts that the quants deserve some of the blame, Mr Bookstaber rushes to the defence of the hedge funds that today employ so many of them (including himself).
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"That was the inflection point when we saw a unique advantage in stacking the house with quants, analysts and salespeople and piled it on, " says one longtime Goldman partner, now retired.
Vega is not actually part of the true Greek alphabet (Alpha-Beta) that is so beloved by financial quants etc and yet it fits neatly into the family tree of performance benchmarks.
In a less dire yet also tense way, social media experts, from the data analytics teams to the mobile outreach quants, have evolved new ways to reach potential supporters better and faster.
Are these changes by which the quants and their algorithms are taking over the stock market beneficial for the small investor, not to speak of the mutual funds, pension funds and bank trust departments that also represent the little guy?
SportVU uses the concept behind missile-tracking technology to log the exact location of every player and the ball 25 times per second on X, Y and Z coordinates, leading to millions of data points for NBA teams' resident quants to study.
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Even with greed, highly paid aggressive bankers, credit-default swaps, and those geeky quants, we would almost certainly have muddled through the fallout from the bursting of the housing bubble without a full-blown financial crisis had there not been millions of mortgages made to people with chequered credit and no down-payments.
He was prepared for the odd world of quants, he said, by playing on the MIT blackjack team--a different version of the team portrayed in the movie 21, in which a group of students figured out that with investor backing, they could consistently beat the house in Las Vegas by counting cards.
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