Charles B. Moss

Professor

Department of Food and Resource Economics

University of Florida

1130B McCarty Hall

P.O. Box 110240

Gainesville, FL 32611-0240

Telephone: (352) 392-1845 Ext. 404
Fax: (352) 392-3646
Email: cbmoss@ufl.edu

Personal Information
Agricultural Risk Analysis and Decision Making - AEB 6182

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Statistical Foundations of Decision Making Under Risk

The basic economic notions of decision making under risk are based on the concept that economic agents make decisions that maximize their expected utilities. This section of the course develops the basis for this theory and how this basic tenant is used to analyze decisions under risk.

    Lecture 3: Probability Theory - A Mathematical Basis for Making Decisions under Risk and Uncertainty PowerPonit
    Lecture 4: Conditional Probability and Distribution Functions PowerPoint
    Lecture 5: Expected Value and Moments PowerPoint
    Lecture 6: Moment generating Function and Method of Moments PowerPoint
    Lecture 7: Maximum Likelihood and Examples PowerPoint
    Lecture 8: Empirical Maximum Likelihod and Stochastic Process PowerPoint
    Lecture 9: Martingales and Random Walks PowerPoint
University of Florida Sites
Center for Applied Optimization
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Courses Taught
Agricultural Finance (AEB 6145)
Agricultural Risk Analysis and Decision Making (AEB 6182)
Applied General Equilibrium Notes
Econometric Seminar (1995)
Financial Theory I (FIN 6446)
Mathematics for Food and Resource Economics (AEB 4511)
Mathematical Programming for Economic Analysis (AEB 6592)
Applied Nonlinear Workshop (October 2008)
Production Economics (AEB 6184)
Static and Dynamic Optimization (AEB 6533)
Statistics for Food and Resource Economics (AEB 6933)
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