Description: This article investigates the properties of the Gompertz distribution function. Explicit formulas for continuous life insurances and annuities are given in terms of the left-truncated gamma function. Moreover, approximations for the mean, variance, skewness and kurtosis of the Gompertz distribution are also given. Finally, the article shows that using a Gompertz assumption at fractional ages produces better a approximation than the usual UDD assumption.

Description: This is the abstract of a paper about developing a model that will provide insight into the true inherent value of a property-liability insurance company from a market perspective.

Description: The purpose of this paper is to explain several actuarial-demographic-statistical techniques and show their application in medical investigations. Actuarial Research Clearing House 1979, VOL. 1

Description: This paper examines four and-a-half years of prescription records for an elderly population who have relatively comprehensive out-of-hospital drug coverage under the Pharmaceutical Assistance Contract for the Elderly program in Pennsylvania. The result is a discussion of the determination of non-parametric estimations of the distributions. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1991, Vol 1.

Description: It is the purpose of this paper to demonstrate in a mathematically rigorous manner that compound interest as usually understood is uniquely given by [l+i]^t for all real t.

Description: A presentation on the principle of equivalent utility from the 2001 ARCH. Contains both the static and dynamic model as well as examples with exponential utility.

Description: This paper discusses the rectangulatization of the survivorship curve and some related puzzling deviations between expectations and observations. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1991, VOL. 2.

Description: This paper develops a parametric model for health care insurance claims using currently available software to fit parametric models to the data. Model selection is based on the Chi-squared goodness-of-fit test and a comparison of the empirical limited expected value function to parametric limited expected value functions. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1993, VOL. 3.

Description: This is the abstract for the referenced paper on the subject of Lundberg bounds on the tails of compound distributions. From ACTUARIAL RESEARCH CLEARING HOUSE 1980 VOL. 2.

Description: This paper addresses the autoregressive model and shows that the boundedness restriction can be removed from the basic result on the probability of ruin. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1991, VOL. 1.