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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.

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    • 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
  • The Bounds of Bivariate Distributions that Limit the Value of Last-Survivor Annuities
    The Bounds of Bivariate Distributions that Limit the Value of Last-Survivor Annuities The dependent relationship between two lives is readily analyzed within the context of probability theory.

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    • Authors: Jacques F Carriere, Lai K Chan
    • Date: Oct 1986
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
    • Topics: Annuities; Modeling & Statistical Methods
  • Simulating Random Variates from Makeham's Distribution and from Others with Exact or Nearly Log-Concave Densities
    Simulating Random Variates from Makeham's Distribution and from Others with Exact or Nearly Log-Concave Densities This paper describes how Markov chain Monte Carlo and related methods ...

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    • Authors: Jacques F Carriere, John A Mereu, Gordon E Klein, David Scollnik, Jeffrey S Pai
    • Date: Oct 1995
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods