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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
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The Effect of Removing Cancer as a Cause of Death When it is Correlated with Other Causes
The Effect of Removing Cancer as a Cause of Death When it is Correlated with Other Causes Multiple decrement ... theory traditionally is based on the assumption that competing causes of decrement are stochastically independent ...- Authors: Jacques F Carriere
- Date: Jan 1994
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods
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Annuity Valuation with Dependent Mortality
Dependent Mortality This paper investigates the use of models of dependent mortality for determining annuity ... annuity values. We discuss a broad class of parametric models using a bivariate survivorship function called ...- Authors: Jacques F Carriere, Edward Frees, Emiliano Valdez
- Date: May 1995
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Annuities>Pricing - Annuities; Experience Studies & Data>Mortality; Finance & Investments>Risk measurement - Finance & Investments
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Estimation of a Multivariate Copula
Estimation of a Multivariate Copula This paper develops the formula for estimation of multivariate copula ... results can be applied to the estimation of correlation coefficients. From the Actuarial Research Clearing ...- Authors: Jacques F Carriere
- Date: Jan 1994
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Estimation methods
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Blending Census and Medicare Mortality Rates
Blending Census and Medicare Mortality Rates This paper presents a new method for blending census and ... Medicare mortality rates for the U.S. Decennial Life Tables. From the Actuarial Research Clearing ...- Authors: Jacques F Carriere
- Date: Jan 1992
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Demography>Population data; Social Insurance>Medicare
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A Continuous Estimator of a Mixing Distribution
Continuous Estimator of a Mixing Distribution This article discusses a continuous estimator of a mixing distribution ... distribution. Specifically the estimator investigated is a mixture of gamma distributions whose parameters ...- Authors: Jacques F Carriere
- Date: Jan 1993
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods
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Nonparametric Estimators of a Distribution Function Base on Mixtures of Gamma Distributions
Nonparametric Estimators of a Distribution Function Base on Mixtures of Gamma Distributions This paper ... nonparametric estimators of the distribution function that are based on mixtures of gamma distributions when ...- Authors: Jacques F Carriere
- Date: Jan 1993
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods
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Nonparametric Tests for Heterogeneity of Risk
Heterogeneity of Risk Consider a portfolio of insurance policies where the mean frquency of claims for ... assumption is that the number of claims for a policy is a Poisson random variable. In this paper the author shows ...- Authors: Jacques F Carriere
- Date: Jan 1992
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods
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New Salary Functions for Pension Valuations
they are used in the valuation of pension plans. Pension actuaries may find many of the ideas in this article ... Moreover, the paper may be interesting to researchers in actuarial science. The main conclusion of this paper ...- Authors: Jacques F Carriere, Kevin Shand
- Date: Jan 1998
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Pensions & Retirement>Assumptions and methods
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A Mixed Lognormal Estimator of a Risk Distribution
Lognormal Estimator of a Risk Distribution This paper discusses a mixed lognormal estimator of a risk distribution ... distribution. Using the observed claim frequencies of a portfolio, the author presents a continuous nonparametric ...- Authors: Jacques F Carriere
- Date: Jan 1993
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods