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A Method for Determining Confidence Intervals for Trend
A Method for Determining Confidence Intervals for Trend This paper presents a method involving re-sampling 'with replacement but without random numbers', numerical convolutions for ...- Authors: William A Bailey
- Date: Oct 1992
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Health & Disability>Health insurance; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Forecasting
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Actuarial Usage of Grouped Data: An Approach to Incorporating Secondary Data
Actuarial Usage of Grouped Data: An Approach to Incorporating Secondary Data This paper addresses some pervasive problems in using secondary data in actuarial research. An approach to solving ...- Authors: Samuel Cox, Patrick L Brockett, Yun Song, Boaz Golany, Fred Y Phillips
- Date: Oct 1995
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Experience Studies & Data; Modeling & Statistical Methods
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Parametric Models for Life Tables
Parametric Models for Life Tables This paper presents a general law of mortality that is equal to a mixture of Gompertz, Weibull, Inverse-Gompertz, and Inverse-Weibull survival functions.- Authors: Jacques F Carriere
- Date: Oct 1992
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Demography>Mortality - Demography; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Forecasting
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Valuing American Options in a Path Simulation Model
Valuing American Options in a Path Simulation Model The goal of this paper is to dispel the prevailing belief that American-style options cannot be valued efficiently in a simulation model by ...- Authors: James A Tilley
- Date: Oct 1993
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Finance & Investments>Derivatives; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Dynamic simulation models
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AIDS: Some Aspects of Modeling the Insurance Risk
AIDS: Some Aspects of Modeling the Insurance Risk This paper is an attempt to examine transmission and incubation period models. Results are used to estimate the risk of HIV+ exposure of an ...- Authors: Fung-Yee F Chan, Michael Cowell, Harry H Panjer
- Date: Oct 1989
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods
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The Standard Deviation of Excess Losses - Actuarial Note
The Standard Deviation of Excess Losses - Actuarial Note The net premium for insurance for expected loss in excess of a retention limit may be small, but the resulting variance of excess losses ...- Authors: Paul Thomson
- Date: Oct 1967
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods
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Projections - How to Make Them and How to Use Them
Projections - How to Make Them and How to Use Them This paper presents the fundamentals of creating and using projections. From Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1950, Vol. 2, No. 4. Pension ...- Authors: Robert F Link, Robert J Myers, A M Niessen, Dorrance C. Bronson, W Rulon Williamson, Herbert J. Stark
- Date: Nov 1950
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Forecasting; Pensions & Retirement
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Modeling the AIDS Epidemic by Analysis of Sexual and Intravenous Drug Behavior
Modeling the AIDS Epidemic by Analysis of Sexual and Intravenous Drug Behavior This paper presents a model of the progression of the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome [AIDS] epidemic in the ...- Authors: Beda Chan, Michael Cowell, Charles S Fuhrer, Ronald Gebhardtsbauer, Peter W Plumley, Colin M Ramsay
- Date: Oct 1989
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods
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Some Instances of the Superiority of Geometric Methods over Arithmetic Methods of Interpolation and Extrapolation
Some Instances of the Superiority of Geometric Methods over Arithmetic Methods of Interpolation and Extrapolation This paper presents a few formulaic examples displaying the advantages of ...- Authors: Charles B Baughman
- Date: May 1965
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Estimation methods
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Optimizing Debit Size: An Operations Research Study
Optimizing Debit Size: An Operations Research Study This paper uses operations research to develop the answer to a question concerning the optimal size of a debit, which is a defined geographical ...- Authors: Dwight K Bartlett
- Date: May 1968
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Life Insurance>Marketing and distribution - Life Insurance; Modeling & Statistical Methods