"All essential topics and even more are covered while keeping the size of the book down (competitive textbooks are lengthy at thousand pages, which is overwhelming for beginning students). LP-sensitivity and post-optimality analysis are presented in an easily understandable manner. Much...

Preface -- Introduction -- Data objects in R -- Data handling in R -- R programming & control flow -- Data exploration -- Graphics in R -- Regression analysis-1 -- Regression analysis-ii -- Time series analysis -- Extreme value theory modelling -- Introduction to multivariate analysis using...

Reference points -- Reference based decisions in finance / Fernando Zapatero -- Professionalism and sophistication effects in finance -- Individuals investment in financial structured products from rational and behavioral choice perspectives / Moran Ofir and Zvi Wiener -- Is investor rationality...