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Obesity and its Relation to Mortality Costs
Obesity and its Relation to Mortality Costs This is a final report to estimate the total economic cost of obesity. This study looks at the economic costs of obesity caused by increased need for ...- Authors: Donald Behan, Samuel Cox, Jeffrey S Pai, Hal Warren Pedersen, Ming Yi, Yijia Lin
- Date: Dec 2010
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition
- Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Morbidity; Experience Studies & Data>Mortality
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Actuarial Usage of Grouped Data: An Approach to Incorporating Secondary Data
Actuarial Usage of Grouped Data: An Approach to Incorporating Secondary Data This paper addresses some pervasive problems in using secondary data in actuarial research. An approach to solving ...- Authors: Samuel Cox, Patrick L Brockett, Yun Song, Boaz Golany, Fred Y Phillips
- Date: Oct 1995
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Experience Studies & Data; Modeling & Statistical Methods
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An Option-Based Operational Risk Management on Pandemics
An Option-Based Operational Risk Management on Pandemics This paper employs the theory of real option pricing to address problems in the area of operational risk management. Particularly, it ...- Authors: Samuel Cox, Hua Chen
- Date: Jan 2008
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Incorporate risk management
- Topics: Enterprise Risk Management>Operational risks
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Statistical Adjustment of Mortality Tables to Reflect Known Information
Statistical Adjustment of Mortality Tables to Reflect Known Information This paper presents a statistical methodology based upon information theory, for adjusting mortality tables to obtain ...- Authors: Samuel Cox, Allan C Weaver, Patrick L Brockett
- Date: Oct 1984
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial theory in business context; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Life Insurance>Pricing - Life Insurance; Modeling & Statistical Methods
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Catastrophe Risk Bonds
Catastrophe Risk Bonds This paper examines the pricing of catastrophe risk bonds. Catastrophe risk cannot be hedged by traditional securities. Therefore the pricing of catastrophe risk bonds ...- Authors: Samuel Cox, Hal Warren Pedersen
- Date: Jan 1998
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Derivatives; Modeling & Statistical Methods
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Optimal Ruin Calculations Using Partial Stochastic Information
Optimal Ruin Calculations Using Partial Stochastic Information Discussion of how to obtain tight upper and lower bounds on E[hX] for a given function h, and a random variable X with three known ...- Authors: Samuel Cox, Patrick L Brockett
- Date: Oct 1984
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Stochastic models
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Portfolio Risk Management with CVAR-Like Constraints
Portfolio Risk Management with CVAR-Like Constraints In his original monograph on portfolio selection, Markowitz [1952] discusses the tradeoff between the mean and variance of a portfolio. Since ...- Authors: Samuel Cox, Ruilin Tian, Luis F Zuluaga, Yijia Lin
- Date: Jan 2008
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Incorporate risk management
- Topics: Enterprise Risk Management>Portfolio management - ERM
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Bounds on Expected Values of Insurance Payments and Option Prices
Bounds on Expected Values of Insurance Payments and Option Prices This paper presents best upper and lower bounds on the expected value of an insurance payment under the terms of a contract ...- Authors: Samuel Cox
- Date: Oct 1991
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods
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Adjusting Life Tables to Incorporate Pertinent Personal Profile Information
Adjusting Life Tables to Incorporate Pertinent Personal Profile Information Shows how to use personal information such as medical history, family characteristics, etc. in a logical statistical ...- Authors: Samuel Cox, Patrick L Brockett
- Date: Jan 1983
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Mortality; Life Insurance>Underwriting - Life Insurance
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Bounds on Expected Values of Insurance Payments and Option Prices
Bounds on Expected Values of Insurance Payments and Option Prices This paper presents best upper and lower bounds on the expected value of a reinsurance payment under the terms of a contract ...- Authors: Samuel Cox
- Date: Jan 1990
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Finance & Investments; Modeling & Statistical Methods; Reinsurance