PhD defence of Rui Jorge de Almeida e Santos Nogueira on Thursday 26 June 2014

Promotie Rui Jorge Almeida e Santos Nogueira op donderdag 26

On Thursday 26 June 2014 Rui Jorge de Almeida e Santos Noguiera will defend his PhD thesis entitled 'Conditional Density Models Integrating Fuzzy and Probabilistic Representations of Uncertainty’. Supervisor is Professor Uzay Kaymak (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven) and co-supervisor is Professor João Miguel da Costa Sousa, (Instituto Superior Técnico , Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal).

Time and location

The PhD defence will take place in the Senate Hall of Erasmus University Rotterdam (Campus Woudestein) and will start at 11.30 hrs.

Abstract 'Conditional Density Models Integrating Fuzzy and Probabilistic Representations of Uncertainty'

Conditional density estimation is an important problem in a variety of areas such as system identification, machine learning, artificial intelligence, empirical economics, macroeconomic analysis, quantitative finance and risk management.

This work considers the general problem of conditional density estimation, i.e., estimating and predicting the density of a response variable as a function of covariates. The semi-parametric models proposed and developed in this work combine fuzzy and probabilistic representations of uncertainty, while making very few assumptions regarding the functional form of the response variable's density or changes of the functional form across the space of covariates. These models possess sufficient generalization power to approximate a non-standard density and the ability to describe the underlying process using simple linguistic descriptors despite the complexity and possible non-linearity of this process.

These novel models are applied to real world quantitative finance and risk management problems by analyzing financial time-series data containing non-trivial statistical properties, such as fat tails, asymmetric distributions and changing variation over time.

More information

For more information about this ceremony, please contact Ronald de Groot, Communication Officer of the Erasmus School of Economics phone +31 10 408 1762 or by e-mail: rdegroot@ese.eur.nl.

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