Description: 1957 Reports of Mortality and Morbidity Experience Table of Contents

Description: In this paper, the coefficients of the minimum-Rz moving-weighted-average formulas are derived using matrix algebra and the method of Lagrange multipliers. Reviewer's note: This mathematics can be useful in the graduation process of mortality and morbidity table construction

Description: Table of Contents of 1958 Reports of Mortality and Morbidity Experience.

Description: The Committee's investigations prepared in 1950 covered the following matters: I. Group Annuity Mortality II. Group Life Insurance III. Group Accident and Health Insurance, including Group Hospital and Surgical Expense Insurance. The details of these investigations were published separately from this document, which merely sets forth a brief description of the studies.

Description: This paper and subsequent Railroad Retirement Board remarriage tables are results from a culmination of remarriage studies from the period 1947-56. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1960, Vol. 12, No. 32.

Description: This is the Table of Contents for 1965 Reports of Mortality and Morbidity Experience. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries, 1965 Reports.

Description: This paper traces the background of the surgeon general's 1979 report on smoking, highlights its principle conclusions with respect to mortality, and summarizes its findings regarding socioeconomic and demographic differences between smokers and nonsmokers. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1980, Vol. 32.

Description: This report discusses the use of a basic table of net annual claim costs for hospital and surgical expense insurance as adopted by the NAIC in 1956 to be used as a minimum reserve standard for loss-of-time benefits. It is the intention of this paper to outline the characteristics of the table, to discuss the factors which influence reserve considerations, and to describe suitable methods of determining active and disabled life reserves for the types of benefit provisions now most generally offered. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1965, Vol. 17, Pt. 1, No. 49.

Description: In this paper, methods are presented that allow the systematic graduation of multidimensional data subject to linear constraints. With these constraints the practitioner can impose limitations on the graduation that agree with prior knowledge. Discussions of this paper are included.

Description: This paper presents the general notion of a periodogram, following Elphinstone's approach. The paper then goes on to examine symmetric linear operators and their periodograms in preparation for the end discussion of periodograms of graduators.