The process of using past cost information to predict future costs is called cost estimation. While many methods are used for cost estimation, the least-squares regression method of cost estimation is ...

THE method of least squares has an extensive literature of its own. Our author, in a sketch appended to his work, gives the titles of forty-seven of the most important memoirs and books which treat of ...

We adopt the least squares Monte Carlo (LSMC) method to price time-capped American options. The cap can be an independent random variable or dependent on the asset price at a random time. We ...

This paper presents a simple but effective and efficient approach to improve the accuracy and stability of the least-squares Monte Carlo method. The key idea is to construct an ansatz for the ...

A statistical technique for fitting a curve to a set of data points. One of the variables is transformed by taking its logarithm, and then a straight line is fitted to the transformed set of data ...