Description: In Gary Venter's paper on Credibility in Foundations Of Casualty Actuarial Science, he suggeted that estimating the variance of the estimated least squares credibility Z would help provide an understanding of the accuracy of the calculation. This paper examines this suggestion. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1994, VOL. 1.

Description: Six methods are presented for calculating the probability of ultimate ruin where the waiting times between claims are independent and identically distributed. Three of the six use Monte Carlo techniques. From Actuarial Research Clearing House 1993, VOL. 1

Description: This paper describes a method to determine confidence intervals for trend involving resampling - with replacement but without random numbers - of numerical convolutions for sums and quotients, and the estimating of confidence intervals for trend in average size major medical claims.

Description: The topic is graduation of raw mortality rates. The approach is to use operational bootstrapping, which produces results which could only be obtained by regular bootstrapping if an infinite number of random numbers were generated. From the Actuarial Research Clearing House 1994 Vol. 1 .