October 2015

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  • 50th Annual Actuarial Research Conference: University of Toronto

    By Sam Broverman Sam Broverman reviews this year’s Actuarial Research Conference, held at the University of Toronto.
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  • Society of Actuaries First Actuarial Teaching Conference

    By Michelle Guan The first Actuarial Teaching Conference (ATC) was held in Indianapolis to promote quality actuarial education, share ideas across universities and support actuarial programs by providing content to help build and enhance their programs.
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  • Chairperson's Corner

    By Rick Gorvett Rick Gorvett discusses the interests of the section and some upcoming events that should be of interest to section members.
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  • Do You Really Use What You Learn On The Exams?

    By Kara Clark and Ian Duncan The E&R section sponsored a novel session at the Health Meeting in June, aimed to address some of the topics that students are required to learn as part of their actuarial curriculum.
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  • Calibrating Risk Score Model with Partial Credibility

    by Shea Parkes and Brad Armstrong Learn how to use concepts like ridge regression to train a model with partial credibility.
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  • Classroom Activities that Promote Participation, Collaboration, and Communication

    By Mark M. Maxwell Techniques to promote active problem solving, collaboration, and communication within a classroom.
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  • Software for Teaching Probability Models

    By Yvonne Chueh Yvonne Chueh discusses a free tool developed in academia that was created for the purpose of teaching probability, and for researcher's modeling efficiency.
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