The Vair Companies will be hosting a new two day financial modeling master class; Risk Modeling and Decision Analysis in New York this October. The course will be taught by Dr. William J. McKibbin.

Atlanta, GA -- (SBWIRE) -- 08/06/2010 -- Risk Modeling and Decision Analysis is a Vair Training Master Class and focuses on risk management for virtually any industry and its related modeling issues. This course covers the basic principles of quantitative-risk analysis and the most important risk modeling principles, methods and techniques. The focus of the workshop is how to conduct accurate and effective quantitative-risk analyses, including best practices of risk modeling, selecting appropriate distributions, using data and expert opinion, and avoiding common mistakes. The course covers assessment of uncertainty, simulation, time-series forecasting, optimization, correlation, eliciting and modeling expert estimates, and communicating riskanalysis results. The training enables participants to produce realistic, high quality corporate finance risk-analysis models in a manner that provides decision makers with the clearest and most helpful input. In addition, the course covers essential probability and statistics theory and various stochastic processes in order to provide course participants with a solid understanding of quantitative risk-analysis methods and techniques.

Dates : 27-28 October, 2010

The course will be taught by Dr. William J. McKibbin; a risk modeler and decision analyst specializing in forecasting, simulation, optimization, stochastics, statistics, programming, training and presentation support. Dr. McKibbin has been in professional practice serving companies in various capacities as consultant, advisor and trainer since 1998. He is an expert user of Excel (Microsoft), ModelRisk (Vose) and Visual Basic for Applications (Microsoft).

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