Fannie Mae financial economist Bernard Gress attributes part of the current economic crisis to reliance on outdated statistical models. He’s taking a fresh approach to the problem—using Mathematica to create a genetic algorithm system for predicting economic data related to housing prices. In this video, he describes the advantages of developing new mortgage forecasting models with Mathematica.

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