Description: This paper has two related purposes: first, to introduce a new class of Moving Weighted Average MWA graduation formulas where the coefficients are determined in accordance with the relative emphasis placed on smoothness and fit by the graduator, and second, to consider the question regarding what value of n to use when graduating by MWA formula. From the Actuarial Research Clearing House, 1978, Vol.1.

Description: An exploration of the seasonality of mortality and how total population mortality is related to flu and pneumonia mortality.

Description: An introduction of predictive modeling techniques that are applicable to insurance industry, including generalized linear model (GLM) and classification and regression tree model(CART). Other models such as data clustering, neural network, and support vector machine (SVM), are also briefly discussed.