For week 2 of the FRM 2008 early bird, I recorded a 30-minute tutorial that introduces three basic distributions: binomial distribution (discrete), poisson distribution (discrete), and the normal distribution (continuous). How important are distributions? “Any risk measure at its most basic level involves an attempt to capture or summarize the shape of an underlying density function…” - Kevin Dowd, Market Risk

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