Description: The Research Executive Committee (REC) of the SOA Research Institute oversees the funding of the Emerging Issues Pool. This key source of research funding is used to sponsor projects that are beneficial to the entire profession, across practice area boundaries that may require funding levels beyond the normal annual funding budgets of research committees and sections. The REC is issuing this Request for Proposals (RFP) to fulfill the strategic goals of the organization through the use of this pool for funding new projects.

Description: You will be reminded how to spot and avoid statistical biases and fallacies that are common to health care actuarial data and problems. We plan to explain various statistical biases and fallacies and for each show one or two examples of how they might pop up in healthcare data and what strategies can be used to avoid/account for them. Likely topics include simpson's paradox, regression to the mean, base rate fallacy, sampling bias, survivor bias, Berkson's fallacy, and others.

Description: Table of contents for the 1999 Spring meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held in Seattle, Washington

Description: This series of articles provides an in-depth look at the activities of the SOA in 2009.

Description: Call for Practical Application Essays on NAAJ Articles

Description: Table of Contents for the 1999 annual meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held in San Francisco, October 1999

Description: Table of Contents for the May 1999 Spring meeting of the Society of Actuaries

Description: Table of contents for Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 16, No. 4A in Orlando on October 14-17, 1990, first half of meeting sessions. See Vol. 16, No. 4B for balance.

Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) is dedicated to advancing education and research for the actuarial profession. As part of its mission, the SOA recognizes the importance of partnering with colleges and universities to help develop future actuaries. With this in mind, the SOA’s Research Department is holding a Student Research Case Study Challenge, which provides an opportunity for teams of students to apply their actuarial skills on a real-world problem in a business setting.

Description: This is the agenda for the 28th Annual Actuarial Research Conference held in Madison, WI August 19-21, 1993. From ACTUARIAL RESEARCH CLEARING HOUSE, 1994 VOL. 1.