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  • The Practical Uses Of Risk Theory
    application of risk theoretic concepts. Except for direct applications in group insurance, risk theory is ... _arketplace. As Peter Drucker has said - business' primary goal is to "create a custur._er''- and uses of ...

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    • Authors: Nathan H Epstein, James C Hickman, Alastair G Longley-Cook, Harry H Panjer
    • Date: Oct 1982
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Enterprise Risk Management; Modeling & Statistical Methods
  • Actuarial Application of the Monte Carlo Technique
    analytic methods. RANDOM NUMBER SUPPLY The primary problem to be solved in any application of the ... proceeds very ingeniously to show equal to 1. A direct method of achieving this result is to consider ...

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    • Authors: Russell M Collins, James C Hickman, Donald A Jones, Nathan F Jones, Robert C Tookey
    • Date: Oct 1962
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
    • Topics: Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance; Modeling & Statistical Methods
  • Practical Applications Of Statistics And Operational Research For Actuaries
    effectively." Basically, these are the goals that direct us in the development of the syl- labus. We think ... sponsors have used dedicated portfolios to take care of projected annu- ity payments for a block of retired ...

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    • Authors: Robert P Clancy, James C Hickman, David Holland, Edward Robbins, James L Sweeney
    • Date: Oct 1984
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Actuarial Profession>Professional development; Modeling & Statistical Methods
  • A Statistical Approach to Premiums and Reserves in Multiple Decrement Theory
    solution that we found in those cases does not have a direct analogue in the decomposition of the total variance ... ( vnlS~+n--l':---a,--l) ,ip~[ / -' a~:~ . The direct difference method, L/5o~ =/s j _ PL'~, is also ...

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    • Authors: James C Hickman
    • Date: Apr 1964
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
    • Topics: Life Insurance; Modeling & Statistical Methods
  • Possible Values vs. Expected Values
    the entire range of possibilities. Substantial care must be taken in developing the set of strategies ... these are the profits", and he took them. He did not care about all the alternative "what ifs"_ he just wanted ...

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    • Authors: James C Hickman, Application Administrator, R Stephen Radcliffe, Irwin T Vanderhoof, John C Wooddy
    • Date: Oct 1981
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Record of the Society of Actuaries
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods
  • Credibility Formulas of the Updating Type
    Credibility Formulas of the Updating Type A presentation of a mathematics/statistics based approach ... compensate for aggregate trend (such as health care inflation or overall mortality reduction). Then ...

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    • Authors: Hans U Gerber, James C Hickman, Donald A Jones, PAUL ROBERT MILLER, Myron Henry Margolin
    • Date: Oct 1975
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Bayesian methods
  • Dividend Formulas in Group Insurance
    Dividend Formulas in Group Insurance The paper discusses the optimal design of dividend - or premium ... "Uncertainty and the WeIfare Economics of Medical Care," American Economic Review, LIII (1963), 941-73 ...

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    • Authors: Hans U Gerber, James C Hickman, Donald A Jones, John A Mereu
    • Date: Oct 1974
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods
  • A Linear Programming Approach to Graduation
    A Linear Programming Approach to Graduation In this paper two theorems concerning the optimality ... deviations and the zth differences be small. A direct and obvious measure is the unsigned magnitude ...

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    • Authors: James C Hickman, Stuart Klugman, Robert B Miller, Donald R Schuette, Harwood Rosser, Thomas N E Greville
    • Date: Oct 1978
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods
  • Adjusting Multiple-Decrement Tables
    Adjusting Multiple-Decrement Tables In this paper a new method of adjusting probabilities ... to evaluate and should be treated with critical care." It seemed to us that, in making mortality adjustments ...

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    • Authors: James C Hickman, John M Krall
    • Date: Nov 1970
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods