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Nonparametric Tests for Heterogeneity of Risk
Heterogeneity of Risk Consider a portfolio of insurance policies where the mean frquency of claims for ... assumption is that the number of claims for a policy is a Poisson random variable. In this paper the author shows ...- Authors: Jacques F Carriere
- Date: Jan 1992
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods
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A Mixed Lognormal Estimator of a Risk Distribution
Estimator of a Risk Distribution This paper discusses a mixed lognormal estimator of a risk distribution ... distribution. Using the observed claim frequencies of a portfolio, the author presents a continuous nonparametric ...- Authors: Jacques F Carriere
- Date: Jan 1993
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods
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Nonparametric Estimators of a Distribution Function Base on Mixtures of Gamma Distributions
Nonparametric Estimators of a Distribution Function Base on Mixtures of Gamma Distributions This paper ... nonparametric estimators of the distribution function that are based on mixtures of gamma distributions when ...- Authors: Jacques F Carriere
- Date: Jan 1993
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods
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An Investigation of the Gompertz Law of Mortality
Investigation of the Gompertz Law of Mortality This article investigates the properties of the Gompertz distribution ... given in terms of the left-truncated gamma function. Moreover, approximations for the mean, variance ...- Authors: Jacques F Carriere
- Date: Jan 1994
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Life Insurance; Modeling & Statistical Methods
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The Bounds of Bivariate Distributions that Limit the Value of Last-Survivor Annuities
The Bounds of Bivariate Distributions that Limit the Value of Last-Survivor Annuities The dependent ... between two lives is readily analyzed within the context of probability theory. This paper presents useful ...- Authors: Jacques F Carriere, Lai K Chan
- Date: Oct 1986
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Annuities; Modeling & Statistical Methods
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The Effect of Removing Cancer as a Cause of Death When it is Correlated with Other Causes
The Effect of Removing Cancer as a Cause of Death When it is Correlated with Other Causes Multiple decrement ... theory traditionally is based on the assumption that competing causes of decrement are stochastically ...- Authors: Jacques F Carriere
- Date: Jan 1994
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods
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Research Studies Multiple Lives Dependency Risk In Annuities
Studies Multiple Lives Dependency Risk In Annuities Summary of the SOA's Annuity Valuation with Dependent ... Mortality research report which examines the standard industry practice of assuming independent lives for insurance ...- Authors: Jacques F Carriere, Edward Frees
- Date: May 1995
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
- Topics: Annuities>Pricing - Annuities
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Self-Financing Markets and Eventual Arbitrage
This paper argues that the self-financing axiom with mild assumptions on the conditional expected returns ... is accomplished by minimizing the conditional variance of a trade when the conditional expectation is a ...- Authors: Jacques F Carriere
- Date: Jan 2003
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Investment strategy - Finance & Investments
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Estimation of a Multivariate Copula
Estimation of a Multivariate Copula This paper develops the formula for estimation of multivariate copula ... results can be applied to the estimation of correlation coefficients. From the Actuarial Research Clearing ...- Authors: Jacques F Carriere
- Date: Jan 1994
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Estimation methods
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A Continuous Estimator of a Mixing Distribution
Continuous Estimator of a Mixing Distribution This article discusses a continuous estimator of a mixing distribution ... distribution. Specifically the estimator investigated is a mixture of gamma distributions whose parameters ...- Authors: Jacques F Carriere
- Date: Jan 1993
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods