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Mortality Improvement: The Ultimate Onion
Mortality Improvement: The Ultimate Onion Identifies current trends and considerations when setting the mortality improvement assumption for individual life insurance in the US. Life reinsurance; ...- Authors: Jay Biehl, Edward Hui
- Date: Nov 2018
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
- Publication Name: Reinsurance News
- Topics: Demography>Mortality - Demography; Demography>Longevity; Demography>Population data; Experience Studies & Data>Mortality; Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Forecasting; Predictive Analytics; Reinsurance>Life reinsurance; Reinsurance>General reinsurance
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On Computing the Probability that Exactly k of n Independent Events will Occur
On Computing the Probability that Exactly k of n Independent Events will Occur This paper explains a method of computation for the probability of survival which may often be more expeditious than ...- Authors: Thomas N E Greville, Robert P White
- Date: Jan 1959
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Mortality; Modeling & Statistical Methods
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Projection and Statistical Modeling of Mortality at Late Age
Projection and Statistical Modeling of Mortality at Late Age Discussion of Living to 100 Session 6A: Projection and Statistical Modeling of Mortality at Late Age Mortality assumption;Mortality ...- Authors: W Ward Kingkade
- Date: Jan 2008
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
- Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Mortality; Global Perspectives; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Deterministic models; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Stochastic models
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The Uniform Distribution of Deaths Assumption and Probability Theory
The Uniform Distribution of Deaths Assumption and Probability Theory The purpose of this note is to show how certain formulas of life contingencies can be derived almost painlessly under the ...- Authors: Hans U Gerber, Donald A Jones
- Date: Jan 1980
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Mortality; Finance & Investments>Risk measurement - Finance & Investments; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Estimation methods
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Towards Computerized Underwriting - A Biological Age Model
Towards Computerized Underwriting - A Biological Age Model Presents a theoretical basis for a computerized methodology for estimating biological age - a measure of time to death. Life expectancy ...- Authors: Robert Brown, KEVIN SHAWN BROWN
- Date: Jan 1983
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Mortality; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Estimation methods; Technology & Applications>Analytics and informatics
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Mortality Mensuration
Mortality Mensuration Review of a new text on mortality measurement, 'Mortality Table Construction' by Robert W. Batten. Assumptions;Contingencies;Insurance valuation tables;Mortality ...- Authors: Richard (Dick) L London
- Date: Oct 1978
- Competency: Communication>Written communication; Professional Values>Practice expertise; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
- Topics: Actuarial Profession>Professional development; Experience Studies & Data>Mortality; Modeling & Statistical Methods
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Where Is the Level of the Mortality Plateau?
Where Is the Level of the Mortality Plateau? We ask whether we can find support for the previously reported upper limit of the force of mortality of 0.7, i.e. about the probability of tossing a ...- Authors: Roland Rau
- Date: Jul 2017
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
- Topics: Demography>Mortality - Demography; Demography>Longevity; Experience Studies & Data>Mortality; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Estimation methods
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Intervention Effects Among a Collection of Risks
Intervention Effects Among a Collection of Risks This paper describes risk-factor-dependent multiple decrements and actuarial cost functions as a general compartment model, a discrete time and ...- Authors: H Tolley, Kenneth G Manton
- Date: Oct 1991
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Morbidity; Experience Studies & Data>Mortality; Modeling & Statistical Methods; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Markov Chain
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On the Balducci Hypothesis
On the Balducci Hypothesis This article investigates the simplicity of the Balducci hypothesis, and compares the fractional-age death probability given by three widely used assumptions: uniform ...- Authors: Ho Kuen Ng
- Date: Jan 1988
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Mortality; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Stochastic models
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Minimum Quadratic Distance Estimation for the Proportional Hazards Regression Model with Group Data
Minimum Quadratic Distance Estimation for the Proportional Hazards Regression Model with Group Data In this paper, we study a survival regression model known as Cox's proportional Hazards ...- Authors: Jacques Rioux, ANDREW LUONG
- Date: Jan 1996
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Mortality; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Estimation methods; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Regression analysis