Announcement: SOA congratulates the new ASAs and CERAs for May 2024.

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  • Technology and Skill Trends in the Actuarial Profession
    sudden disruptors such as what we face now with COVID-19. One of many examples of changing risk due to ... articles on how we can move the profession forward. n COVID-19 and other possible pandemics create other sets ...

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    • Authors: Julie Curtis
    • Date: Aug 2020
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Strategic Insight and Integration; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Predictive Analytics and Futurism Newsletter
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession; Technology & Applications; Technology & Applications>Analytics and informatics; Technology & Applications>Artificial intelligence & machine learning
  • Appendix B: How to Build a Model
    Appendix B: How to Build a Model This actually is a copy of an appendix of a research paper ... paper. Business intelligence;Logistic regression;Mortality modeling;Regression analysis 6442463172 7/1/2015 ...

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    • Authors: Dihui Lai, Scott Rushing, Minyu Cao, Timothy Rozar, Qichun Xu
    • Date: Jul 2015
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: Predictive Analytics and Futurism Newsletter
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Analytics and informatics
  • Exploring the SOA Table Database
    Scottish life ta- bles. It’s no wonder they’re outliers in Figure 1; they look noth- ing like mortality tables ... such as lapse rates by duration or ultimate mortality rates. We could also deal with matrices such as ...

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    • Authors: Brian Holland
    • Date: Jul 2016
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: Predictive Analytics and Futurism Newsletter
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Analytics and informatics
  • Chairperson's Corner
    major new step for us is a one-day seminar after the Life & Annuity Symposium in Nashville in May. By print ... for a larger group—up to 50—and our goal is to apply predictive analytics in the life and annuity space ...

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    • Authors: Brian Holland
    • Date: Jul 2016
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: Predictive Analytics and Futurism Newsletter
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Analytics and informatics
  • And Now, I Are One
    CEO of a reinsurer with trillions of dollars of life insurance reinsured stated that the two big areas ... aries are involved in predicting morbidity and mortality, and the various financial risks associated with ...

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    • Authors: David Snell
    • Date: Dec 2018
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>External forces and business performance; Professional Values>Ethical standards
    • Publication Name: Predictive Analytics and Futurism Newsletter
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Professional development; Predictive Analytics; Technology & Applications>Analytics and informatics
  • paf-iss14-ali2
    surance” 13 Stanford Natural Language Processing Group; available at: http://nlp.stanford. edu/soft ware/ ... Insurance” 15 Stanford Natural Language Processing Group; available at: http://nlp.stanford. edu/soft ware/ ...

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    • Authors: Syed Danish Ali
    • Date: Dec 2016
    • Competency: Leadership>Thought leadership; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions
    • Publication Name: Predictive Analytics and Futurism Newsletter
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Analytics and informatics
  • Feature Importance in Supervised Training
    The generation of a pair‐wise multivariate feature importance report is produced similarly to the  univariate‐perturbation ... of a pair- wise multivariate feature importance report is produced similarly to the univariate- perturbation ...

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    • Authors: Jeff T Heaton
    • Date: Apr 2018
    • Publication Name: Predictive Analytics and Futurism Newsletter
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Analytics and informatics; Technology & Applications>Computer science
  • Creating a Useful Training Dataset for Predictive Modeling
    incur very high costs in the last few months of life.1 When constructing a training data set, it would ... small sample to make predictions for a much larger group, which will exacerbate any biases you have in your ...

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    • Authors: Anders Larson
    • Date: Dec 2016
    • Competency: Professional Values>Practice expertise; 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>Forecasting; Predictive Analytics; Technology & Applications>Analytics and informatics
  • A NEAT Approach to Neural Network Structure
    try! NEAT uses a type of k-means clustering to group the popula- tion into a predefined number of clusters ... Evolving Large-Scale Neural Networks. Artificial Life 15(2): 185–212. • Risi, S., J. Lehman and K. Stanley ...

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    • Authors: Jeff T Heaton
    • Date: Dec 2013
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Innovative solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: Predictive Analytics and Futurism Newsletter
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Analytics and informatics; Technology & Applications>Business intelligence; Technology & Applications>Computer science
  • From Deep Blue to DeepMind: What AlphaGo Tells Us
    organic, and rigor- ously logical that if intelligent life forms exist elsewhere in the universe, they almost ... main themes at the 46th World Economic Forum. One report predicts “7.1 million redundancies by 2021, mainly ...

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    • Authors: Haofeng Yu
    • Date: Jul 2016
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
    • Publication Name: Predictive Analytics and Futurism Newsletter
    • Topics: Technology & Applications>Analytics and informatics