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  • Book Review: The Improbability Principle, Black Swans & Sully Sullenberger
    Book Review: The Improbability Principle, Black Swans & Sully Sullenberger Review of The Improbability Principle: Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day, by ...

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    • Authors: Society of Actuaries, Jay Jaffe
    • Date: Aug 2014
    • Competency: Communication>Written communication; External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context
    • Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
    • Topics: Enterprise Risk Management>Risk measurement - ERM; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Forecasting
  • Actuaries as Heroes
    Actuaries as Heroes Book review of The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes’ Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy ...

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    • Authors: Jay Jaffe
    • Date: Dec 2013
    • Competency: Communication>Written communication
    • Publication Name: The Actuary Magazine
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Bayesian methods