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  • R Corner
    started R with, you can get this into a dataframe, let's call it "MyData," by using this command: MyData <- ... "c:\\R\\Rcorner\\test.csv", row.names=FALSE) Now let's discuss how to use the RODBC package to get database ...

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    • Authors: Steven Craighead
    • Date: Oct 2008
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: Expanding Horizons
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods; Technology & Applications>Software
  • Education and Research Section Council Synopsis of Recent Activity
    members: Sam Cox (University of Manitoba), Pat Pruitt (U.S. Railroad and Retirement Board), and Jim Trimble ... Trimble (University of Connecticut). Ron Gebhardtsbauer’s term as E&R Section chair ended. We thank him for ...
    • Authors: Kristen S Moore
    • Date: Apr 2012
    • Publication Name: Expanding Horizons
  • University of Minnesota and University of St. Thomas Co-Host 2016 Actuarial Research Conference (ARC)
    Research Conference (ARC) By Laurie Derechin This year’s ARC theme is “Strengthening Industry and Academic ... Minnesota’s Minnesota Center for Financial & Actuarial Mathematics and the University of St Thomas’s Actuarial ...
    • Authors: Laurie Derechin
    • Date: Apr 2016
    • Competency: Leadership; Professional Values; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Expanding Horizons
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession; General Insurance (Property & Casualty); Health & Disability; Life Insurance; Modeling & Statistical Methods
  • The R Corner
    theory;Predictive modeling; <!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="Table" --> The R Corner By Steve Craighead This month ... month the R corner will be looking at Vincent Goulet's actuar R package. Vincent is a professor at Laval University ...

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    • Authors: Steven Craighead
    • Date: Feb 2008
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: Expanding Horizons
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods; Technology & Applications>Software
  • E&R Sponsored Sessions at the June Health Meeting
    E&R Sponsored Sessions at the June Health Meeting By Ian Duncan and Chuck Fuhrer Healthcare ... the free market, something that hasn’t existed in U.S. health care—possibly forever, but certainly not ...
    • Authors: Ian G Duncan
    • Date: Apr 2017
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Internal forces and business performance; Strategic Insight and Integration>Strategy development
    • Publication Name: Expanding Horizons
    • Topics: Health & Disability>Public financing - Health & Disability
  • Regression and Times Series for Actuaries
    Regression and Times Series for Actuaries This article discusses Jed Frees’ book in progress, ... publisher—the paperback version will be less than $50 (U.S.) initially. The purpose of organizing this material ...

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    • Authors: Edward Frees
    • Date: Oct 2008
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Expanding Horizons
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods
  • Diversity in the Actuarial Profession—An Update
    the actuarial profession to their levels in the U.S. population. Most actuarial employers have diversity ... the 2010 census, African Americans were 13% of the U.S. population, Hispanics were 16% and Native Americans ...
    • Authors: Barry McKeown
    • Date: Oct 2016
    • Competency: Leadership>Mentoring; Leadership>Thought leadership; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view
    • Publication Name: Expanding Horizons
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession
  • American Academy of Actuaries Announces Academy Award for Research for Outstanding Public Policy Research from an Actuarial Perspective by an Early Career Scholar
    perspective on a public policy issue of interest to U.S. actuaries and public policy makers. The American ... work—either in person or virtually—at the Academy’s annual meeting in November in Washington, D . C .

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    • Authors: Steve Jackson
    • Date: Jun 2023
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Expanding Horizons
    • Topics: Environment; Environment>Catastrophic event; Environment>Sea level; Environment>Climate trends; Environment>Extreme precipitation; Environment>Extreme temperature; Environment>Flood; Environment>Frequency / severity of extreme event; Environment>Natural resources
  • University Programs for Academic/Practitioner Collaboration—Part Two
    Academic/Practitioner Collaboration—Part Two Editor’s Note: part one of this article series can be found ... Academic Partnerships: the buyer’s research;Healthcare research   Editor’s Note: part one of this article ...
    • Authors: Ian G Duncan
    • Date: Oct 2014
    • Publication Name: Expanding Horizons
  • Diversity in the Actuarial Profession
    the actuarial profession to their levels in the U.S. population. Most actuarial employers have diversity ... census, African Americans were 13 percent of the U.S. population, Hispanics were 16 percent and Native ...
    • Authors: Barry McKeown
    • Date: Apr 2014
    • Publication Name: Expanding Horizons
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Academic partnerships