Description: This article outlines a practical approach for setting mortality rates using credibility theory. It includes formulas that can easily be applied to determine how much credibility to assign to the results of a mortality experience study.

Description: This paper was motivated in part by a desire to use, in a variety of classroom situations, some of the readily available statistics on mortality and related factors. A second aim was to illustrate certain statistical ideas, such as the relative merits of means and medians. However, the subject of racial differentials in mortality rates is of considerable intrinsic interest, which the analysis presented here only begins to address.

Description: This collection of data shows a trend in mortality during a period of many medical breakthroughs and social improvements.

Description: Study of the Effect of a Flu Pandemic on Insured Mortality Using the Delphi Method

Description: Survey of post level term lapse and mortality assumptions for level term premium plans.

Description: This study provides statistical indications of trends in mortality at ages 10 through 34 for both males and females in Canada. Causes of death, with emphasis on suicide and accidental death rates, are explored.

Description: Comparison of life expediencies in 2020 from various mortality tables