Re: Simulation software

kathy gile ( kgecorp@ix7.ix.netcom.com )
Wed, 10 Sep 1997 20:36:34 -0500

Howard Mahler wrote:
>
> Just to add my two sense. I use APL to simulate. (I write my own functions
> the old fashioned way.) At home I use Mathematica (available on the MAC,
> IBM and other platforms.) I also use Crimcalc, Glenn Meyers excellent PC
> program of the Heckman/Meyers algorithm for aggregate loss distributions.
>
> Howard Mahler
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I, too, do simulation in a very direct way using Visual Basic. With
today's extreme clock speeds very large simulations are quite possible.
For fitting distributions, I use MathCad and BestFit.
Brad Gile

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