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Group Medical Pricing Trend
Group Medical Pricing Trend This paper provides an outline of the pricing methodology used by Blue Cross ... Cross and Blue Shield of Virginia which incorporates trend analysis by trend component. From Actuarial ...- Authors: Wesley S Carver, David A Shea
- Date: Jan 1993
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance; Modeling & Statistical Methods
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Analyzing Nonlinear and Non-Gaussian Actuarial Time Series
This paper gives a brief review of advanced time series models, the state space model, using Monte Carlo ... practicing actuaries. The models employed allow for the possibilities of nonnormal errors and nonlinear functionals ...- Authors: Bradley P Carlin
- Date: Jan 1992
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods
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Power Tail Distributions and Group Medical Expense Insurance Payments
Group Medical Expense Insurance Payments In this paper the authors analyze data from group medical expense ... fraction of the total cost. They also present a simple model to reproduce and explain the large loss ...- Authors: Walter B Lowrie, L Lipsky
- Date: Jan 1990
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance; Modeling & Statistical Methods
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Estimators of the Regression Parameters of the Zeta Distribution
Estimators of the Regression Parameters of the Zeta Distribution The zeta distribution with regression ... because of the difficulty of estimating the parameters by traditional maximum likelihood. This is the abstract ...- Authors: Louis G Doray
- Date: Jan 1998
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods
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A Method to Determine Confidence Intervals for Trend
random numbers - of numerical convolutions for sums and quotients, and the estimating of confidence intervals ... intervals for trend in average size major medical claims. Major medical insurance;Statistical methods; 438 ...- Authors: William A Bailey
- Date: Jan 1992
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods
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The Table of Isolated Mortality
The Table of Isolated Mortality This paper shows the mortality element can be partially isolated allowing ... readily obtained at any interest rate. From the Actuarial Research Clearing House 1979, Vol.2. Annuity ...- Authors: Basil A Xavier
- Date: Jan 1979
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Annuities; Modeling & Statistical Methods
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An Investigation of the Gompertz Law of Mortality
Investigation of the Gompertz Law of Mortality This article investigates the properties of the Gompertz distribution ... given in terms of the left-truncated gamma function. Moreover, approximations for the mean, variance ...- Authors: Jacques F Carriere
- Date: Jan 1994
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Life Insurance; Modeling & Statistical Methods
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Solution of the Risk Load Problem of Effect on Variability
Solution of the Risk Load Problem of Effect on Variability The method described in this paper is to ... to allocate surplus to each category of business and reserves in proportion to its estimated effect on ...- Authors: Daniel F Gogol
- Date: Jan 1993
- Competency: Results-Oriented Solutions; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Finance & Investments; Modeling & Statistical Methods
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Estimation of the Rate of Mortality in the Presence of In-And-Out Movement
Estimation of the Rate of Mortality in the Presence of In-And-Out Movement In estimating mortality rates ... rates from the experience of a life insurance company or employee-benefit plan, it is expedient, because ...- Authors: Thomas N E Greville
- Date: Jan 1978
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods
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On the Time Value of Ruin
On the Time Value of Ruin This paper studies the joint distribution of the time of ruin, the surplus ... and the deficit at ruin. The classical model is generalized by discounting with respect to the time ...- Authors: Hans U Gerber, Elias Shiu
- Date: Jan 1997
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods