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Estimates of the Incidence, Prevalence, Duration, Intensity and Cost of Chronic Disability Among the U.S. Elderly
Intensity and Cost of Chronic Disability Among the U.S. Elderly A study of disability experience examines ... in Orlando, Florida. An abstract of the author's paper was presented in the September 2008 issue of ...- Authors: P J Stallard
- Date: Feb 2009
- Competency: Communication>Written communication; Professional Values>Public interest representation; Results-Oriented Solutions>Actionable recommendations; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
- Publication Name: Long-Term Care News
- Topics: Actuarial Profession>Professional associations; Demography>Longevity; Experience Studies & Data>Disability; Long-term Care>Medical expenses; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Data mining; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Markov Chain
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Python Libraries for Mortality Modeling
Python Libraries for Mortality Modeling Python is the leading programming language for data science ... traditional actuarial problem, mortality modeling, as an example. Programming, Mortality, Python 11/15/2019 12:00:00 ...- Authors: Carlos Brioso
- Date: Nov 2019
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuary of the Future
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Data mining; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Regression analysis; Predictive Analytics; Predictive Analytics>Programming languages & tools
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Updating the Accounts: Global Mortality of the 1918–1920 Spanish Influenza Pandemic.
Updating the Accounts: Global Mortality of the 1918–1920 Spanish Influenza Pandemic. The influenza pandemic ... recorded statistics of influenza morbidity and mortality are likely to be a significant understatement ...- Authors: Niall P.A.S. Johnson, Juergen Mueller
- Date: Apr 2002
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
- Topics: Demography; Experience Studies & Data>Mortality; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Data mining; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Estimation methods
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Bariatric Surgery Holds Promise for Patients and for Payors
Health estimate approxi- mately one-third of the U.S. adult population is now obese, with a body mass ... kilograms divided by height in meters squared. From 2000 to 2005 alone, the obesity rate increased by 24 ...- Authors: John Dawson, Pierre-Yves Cremieux, Arindam Ghosh
- Date: Jan 2011
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Results-Oriented Solutions>Actionable recommendations; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
- Publication Name: Health Watch
- Topics: Economics>Health economics; Experience Studies & Data; Health & Disability>Health risks; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Data mining
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The Impact of Obesity and Diabetes on LTC Disability and Mortality: Population Estimates from the National Long-Term Care Survey
of Obesity and Diabetes on LTC Disability and Mortality: Population Estimates from the National Long-Term ... effects of obesity and diabetes on disability and mortality, and ways these effects can be used to improved ...- Authors: P J Stallard
- Date: Sep 2011
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations; Results-Oriented Solutions>Actionable recommendations; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
- Publication Name: Long-Term Care News
- Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Disability; Experience Studies & Data>Mortality; Health & Disability>Chronic health management - Health & Disability; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Data mining; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Estimation methods
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Estimating the Impact of Disease and Treatment on Life Expectancy
expectancy of its residents. Utilizing data from large U.S. commer- cial and Medicare databases, we developed ... innovative predictive models that project medical and mortality risk simultaneously several years into the future ...- Authors: Tzu-Chun Kuo, Philipp Vetter
- Date: Jan 2011
- Competency: Leadership>Thought leadership; Professional Values>Public interest representation; Strategic Insight and Integration>Big picture view; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
- Publication Name: Health Watch
- Topics: Demography>Longevity; Health & Disability>Health care quality; Health & Disability>Health risks; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Data mining
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How to Get Started in Predictive Analytics
Actuaries” by Alan Mills. Alan put together a handy table listing common forecasting approaches in actuarial ... life insurance—have discrete u/w classes as opposed to more continuous u/w; • might want to classify ...- Authors: Mary Campbell
- Date: Dec 2015
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
- Publication Name: Predictive Analytics and Futurism Newsletter
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Data mining; Predictive Analytics
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Seven Quantitative Insights into Active Management—Part 5 Data Mining Is Easy
Seven Quantitative Insights into Active Management—Part 5 Data Mining Is Easy This article discusses ... results have value beyond mere coincidence. Editor’s Note: The following article originally appeared in ...- Authors: Ronald Kahn
- Date: Mar 1998
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Risks & Rewards
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Data mining
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Spark: the Next-generation Processing Engine for Big Data
one can also register the data frame as a SQL table and use SQL-like syntax to do the joining operations ... speed due to optimized algorithm and parallelism (Table 1). The spark clus- ter reduced the processing time ...- Authors: Dihui Lai, Qichun Xu
- Date: Dec 2015
- Competency: Strategic Insight and Integration; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Predictive Analytics and Futurism Newsletter
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Data mining; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Modeling efficiency
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Predictive Modeling
is a linear combi- nation of independent variable(s) To make a valid linear regression in this basic ... estimations will give the same result. (ii) A s predictive modeling (PM) draws more and more attention ...- Authors: Qichun Xu
- Date: Jul 2013
- Competency: Professional Values>Practice expertise; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
- Publication Name: Predictive Analytics and Futurism Newsletter
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Data mining; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Forecasting