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The Lounge What is on Your Mind? Will You Get the A(H1N1) Vaccine? Post 302385285 by Corona688 on Thursday 7th of January 2010 05:09:13 PM

01-07-2010

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Originally Posted by Neo

Homeopathic and herbal strategies are great for the prevention of diseases which do not have safe and effective vaccines.

Homeopathic and herbal aren't quite the same thing. A homeopathic preparation is intentionally diluted, often to the point where actually getting any of the molecules of what's been diluted is unlikely.

It's entirely possible for herbal treatments to be effective. Many modern drugs are duplicates or slight modifications of things discovered in the real world. But herbal treatments are only subject to the same rigor food is -- if it doesn't kill you, leach lead, or contain too many bug fragments, they're allowed to put it on the shelf whether it does anything or not.

I once saw a bottle of herbal tablets purporting to improve memory, even referencing a study... Intrigued, I looked it up -- the study was about Ginko's effects on night-vision in people with attention-deficit disorder. Buyer beware.

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BERMUDANSWAPTION(1)					      General Commands Manual					       BERMUDANSWAPTION(1)

NAME

       BermudanSwaption - Example of using QuantLib

SYNOPSIS

       BermudanSwaption

DESCRIPTION

       BermudanSwaption is an example of using the QuantLib interest-rate model framework.

       BermudanSwaption  prices  a  bermudan swaption using different models calibrated to market swaptions. The calibration examples include Hull
       and White's using both an analytic formula as well as numerically, and Black and Karasinski's model. Using these three calibrations, Bermu-
       dan swaptions are priced for at-the-money, out-of-the-money and in-the-money volatilities.

SEE ALSO

       The source code BermudanSwaption.cpp, Bonds(1), CallableBonds(1), CDS(1), ConvertibleBonds(1), DiscreteHedging(1), EquityOption(1), Fitted-
       BondCurve(1),  FRA(1),  MarketModels(1),  Replication(1),  Repo(1),  SwapValuation(1),  the   QuantLib	documentation	and   website	at
       http://quantlib.org.

AUTHORS

       The QuantLib Group (see Authors.txt).

       This manual page was added by Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>, the Debian GNU/Linux maintainer for QuantLib.

QuantLib							    04 May 2002 					       BERMUDANSWAPTION(1)