Description: This abstract describes a paper that shows that by modeling the time series of mortality rate changes rather than mortality rate levels, human mortality can be better modeled.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that shows that life expectancy at birth for populations closed to migration with at least two successive census counts of the population by age can be computed by using cohort change ratios in combination with an identity whereby the radix of a life table is equal to 1.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that studies the relation between the two basic random events associated with human mortality: birth and death.

Description: This abstract introduces the paper that demonstrates that marital status has as much influence on rates of human mortality as the better known factors of gender and smoking habits. The validity of various explanations is examined.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that considers a Bayesian approach for parameter estimation under a specific PH aging model framework.

Description: This abstract is for a paper on the study of issues and recent extensions of the classical Lee-Carter model for mortality forecasting, and the application of the Lee-Carter model to life insurance mortality models in the Nordic countries.

Description: This article describes techniques and models used to forecast mortality improvement and the considerations that underlie long-term mortality improvement projections in the United States.

Description: This abstract is for a paper that proposes an approach to determine the actuarial present value of life contingent events under a stochastic interest rate environment.

Description: This abstract describes a paper that examines the risk and return of fixed index annuity (FIA) with an enhanced model framework.

Description: This is the abstract of a paper in which the authors develop sixteen separate mortality models based on the current SOA mortality data being used for the preferred life study. The models are constructed using projection pursuit regression. The sixteen models arise from all combinations of sex, smoker status, select and ultimate status, and per life vs. per dollar mortality rates. In general the models confirm the following four facts: 1 Mortality rates increase as attained age increases. 2 Mortality rates increase as duration increases. 3 Mortality rates decrease as Face Amount Bands increase. 4. Mortality rates decrease if preferred underwriting is present.