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  • Notes on Bayesian Graduation
    insurance premiums requires estimates of a set of mortality, interest, and expense parameters. In fixing ... science in the estimation of mortality parameters. Observed mortality probabilities often exhibit irregularities ...

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    • Authors: James C Hickman, Donald A Jones, Thomas G Kabele, Stuart Klugman, Steven F McKay, Robert B Miller, Harwood Rosser
    • Date: Oct 1977
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Bayesian methods
  • Hierarchical Bayesian Whittaker Graduation
    1 vector z which in most mortality studies contains the crude mortality rates at succc~,is'e ages. ... r2Q) where # is a prior best guess a.s to the mortality rates (likely to be a previous study of a similar ...

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    • Authors: Stuart Klugman
    • Date: Jan 1992
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Bayesian methods