1
-
10
of
245
results (0.42 seconds)
Sort By:
-
A Step Beyond the Graetz Prepayment Analysis
A Step Beyond the Graetz Prepayment Analysis This paper points out errors in the Graetz Prepayment Analysis ... for mutual companies. Those errors result in an understatement of the tax burden borne by mutual life ...- Authors: Robert B Burdette
- Date: Jan 1992
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Public Policy
-
Group Medical Pricing Trend
Group Medical Pricing Trend This paper provides an outline of the pricing methodology used by Blue Cross ... Cross and Blue Shield of Virginia which incorporates trend analysis by trend component. From Actuarial ...- Authors: Wesley S Carver, David A Shea
- Date: Jan 1993
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance; Modeling & Statistical Methods
-
Portfolio Optimization in Corporate Models
Design and future maintenance of an asset portfolio backing a new line of business is critical for proper ... require the user to specify the asset and liability attributes and cash flows into the program. The programmer ...- Authors: William L Babcock, Steven Craighead
- Date: Jan 1999
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Stochastic models
-
Analyzing Nonlinear and Non-Gaussian Actuarial Time Series
This paper gives a brief review of advanced time series models, the state space model, using Monte Carlo ... practicing actuaries. The models employed allow for the possibilities of nonnormal errors and nonlinear functionals ...- Authors: Bradley P Carlin
- Date: Jan 1992
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods
-
Power Tail Distributions and Group Medical Expense Insurance Payments
Group Medical Expense Insurance Payments In this paper the authors analyze data from group medical expense ... fraction of the total cost. They also present a simple model to reproduce and explain the large loss ...- Authors: Walter B Lowrie, L Lipsky
- Date: Jan 1990
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance; Modeling & Statistical Methods
-
Economic Crises and Health Risk: Evidence from Mexico
Economic Crises and Health Risk: Evidence from Mexico There are many investigations probing the relationship ... rate] and economic variables [such as rise in income] and other variables [such as level of education ...- Authors: Tapen Sinha, Application Administrator
- Date: Jan 2003
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Mortality
-
A Method to Determine Confidence Intervals for Trend
random numbers - of numerical convolutions for sums and quotients, and the estimating of confidence intervals ... intervals for trend in average size major medical claims. Major medical insurance;Statistical methods; 438 ...- Authors: William A Bailey
- Date: Jan 1992
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods
-
An Investigation of the Gompertz Law of Mortality
Investigation of the Gompertz Law of Mortality This article investigates the properties of the Gompertz distribution ... given in terms of the left-truncated gamma function. Moreover, approximations for the mean, variance ...- Authors: Jacques F Carriere
- Date: Jan 1994
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Life Insurance; Modeling & Statistical Methods
-
Health Care Costs in the Last Year of Life. Impact on Present Values from Changes in Mortality
Health Care Costs in the Last Year of Life. Impact on Present Values from Changes in Mortality This ... costs in the last year of life. This paper looks specifically at the issues of measurement of retiree ...- Authors: Adam J Reese
- Date: Jan 1993
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Retiree medical
-
Estimating Parameters of the Force of Mortality in Actuarial Studies
Parameters of the Force of Mortality in Actuarial Studies This paper presents an additional view of estimating ... estimating parameters of the force of mortality using Bayesian methods. Some examples are provided.- Authors: Rohan J Dalpatadu, Malwane M Ananda, Ashok K Singh
- Date: Jan 1993
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Bayesian methods