Description: A contingency table is a set of counts or frequencies obtained by classifying observations in two or more different ways. Log-linear analysis is applied to disability terminations, linking them to variables such as sex, age, region and maximum benefit period. Application to risk classification and underwriting are outlines.

Description: Panel session exploring a variety of issues connected to long-term disability reserve buyouts, including: · Advantages and risks for buyers and sellers · Use of appropriate reserving assumptions · Possible financial structures for a buyout

Description: Article Disparate Origins Of Life And Non-Life Insurances by Beard in The Actuary, February 1979, Volume 13, Number 2

Description: Discussion that developing credibility factors for group health insurance can be accomplished empirically through the use of stochastic models with appropriate parameters and fairly readily obtainable data, without the need for unrealistic assumptions.

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. In this session the panel consider the question of uncertainty in loss reserves including discussion of sources and measurement. The panelists analyzed the same data set from different perspectives and discussed the strengths and weaknesses of the approaches.

Description: This section contains multiple book reviews and notices concerning the actuarial profession. Reviews: 'Medical Risks: Patterns of Mortality and Survival' by Singer and Levinson, 'The Theory and Practice of Pension Funding' by Trowbridge and Farr, 'Two Stochastic Processes' by Beekman, 'Disability Income Insurance - Cost Differentials between Men and Women' by New York Insurance Department, 'Social Security and Private Pension Plans: Competitive or Complementary' by McGill, 'A New Look at Accounting for Pension Costs' by Hall and Landsittel, '1977 Annual Reports of the Board of Trustees of the Federal OASDI Trust Funds...,' 'Investigation of Sickness Statistics - Individual Policies, 1971 and 1973' by the Institute of Actuaries and the Faculty of Actuaries, 'The Graduation of Pensioners and of Annuitants Mortality Experience 1967-70' by the Institute of Actuaries and the Faculty of Actuaries, 'Pensions and Survival - the Coming Crisis of Money and Retirement' by Calvert, 'Group Benefits in a Changing Society' by Spencer, 'Experience of Disabled Work Benefits under OASDI 1965-74' by Bayo and Wilkin. Digests also included.

Description: This review summarizes the key features of a stochastic model that works with non-life insurance claim incurral, accrual and reporting. More specifically it provides an overview of the claim model components, classical parameter estimators, test statistics, and forecast point estimates and error variances. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1991, VOL. 1.

Description: This session presents a summary of actuarial and potential uses of stochastic modeling for health actuaries. Three case studies are presented: rating health plan reimbursement provisions, developing claim liabilities, and defining appropriate reinsurance levels. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 30, No. 1, Session 18

Description: Provides a how-to session on modeling assets and liabilities in the Valuation Actuary's work to comply with the Standard Valuation Law. Comparisons of the methods discussed are occasionally made with the requirements of New York Regulation 126. Session 12 of the 1991 Valuation Actuary Symposium.

Description: This work investigates the use of a statistical approach to calculate the incurred but not reported IBNR reserve directly. This allows for the reserve to be estimated in one step, without completion factors, and it provides a confidence interval around the estimate of IBNR as well.