Comments on: Mata Amrita Index

By: Hug Theories | Pertinent Observations

Hug Theories | Pertinent Observations — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:26:24 +0000

[...] kind of a chow-chow bhath post – I’ve aggregated several concepts related to hugging and the Mata Amrita Index and am putting them in one [...]

By: skimpy

skimpy — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:24:02 +0000

yeah this is just the concept. yet to flesh it out.

hmmm interesting definitions you’ve put here

By: Skobit

Skobit — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:15:46 +0000

Hmm, on re-reading the definition of calculation, I guess you do include BMAIs of random people too. I guess I’m concentrating too much on the words people he knows .

By: Skobit

Skobit — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:11:49 +0000

Skimpy, I think there’s a small problem with saying that:

MAI = Weighted Average of BMAIs (with people a person knows)

Does this exclude random people whom he meets? Of course, you can say that for any individual, both the frequency of meeting them and BMAIs are likely to be vanishingly small (except for, of course, MA herself). Still, for completeness sake, I would say that MAI should include that.

By: xyz

xyz — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:14:48 +0000

You have a concept here. How would you implement it? How would it be measured? By whom? Might it be “gamed’?

MAI – sounds like the correlation of a single credit (i.e. the underlying assets) with “the single factor” in a single-factor model.

BMAI – soulds like a bivariate correlation of the single credit above with, and when conditioned on, a given – as opposed to arbitrary – second name.

By: skimpy

skimpy — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:37:42 +0000

your indices have one fundamental problem – they lack interesting names. so they’ll never catch on

the thing with MAI is that it has an interesting name, and that should help a lot in propagating the concept

By: skimpy

skimpy — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:36:33 +0000

thank you

By: KT

KT — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 09:02:25 +0000

Interesting..
some variants
- slap index : p(slap next guy u weet) – is uni-directional unlike hugging
- kill index : p(kill next guy u meet) – only 1 time use once executed

high values will indicate aggressiveness of a person

By: Jatkesha

Jatkesha — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:17:12 +0000

This is quite stud! Normally I don’t comment on blogs unless I have something to say but this post is indeed remarkable.

Kudos Skimpy.