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Health Care (Pricing) Reform
Health Care (Pricing) Reform This article discusses the use of parametric distributions to model health ... health care cost. ;; Model validation; Modeling efficiency; Sensitivity testing; Complexity science 4294991590 ...- Authors: Syed Mehmud
- Date: May 2012
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Health Watch
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Estimation methods; Predictive Analytics
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A Simple Monte Carlo Approach to Bayesian Graduation
available for many years, the recent shift of primary ac- tuarial education from a deterministic to ... methods because the results "don't look right." The primary references in the Bayesian graduation literature ...- Authors: Bradley P Carlin
- Date: Oct 1992
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Estimation methods
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Interpolation of Morbidity Rates
pre-emption of the health care field through universal hospital and medical care plans, prior to 1970 ... Since this very old and obscure data were the primary basis available for the then rapidly expanding ...- Authors: Frank Reynolds
- Date: Jan 1983
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Morbidity; Health & Disability>Disability insurance; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Estimation methods
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Statistical Methods for Health Actuaries - IBNR Estimates: An Introduction
of each section: Section 1: Overview of Health Care Liabilities and Introduction to the Completion Factor ... section provides general information about health care liabilities and outlines a simplified example of ...- Authors: Steven Siegel, Jed Linfield, Krzysztof Ostaszewski, Jinadasa Gamage
- Date: Oct 2007
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Estimation methods
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Mortality Investigation with Expected Mortality Estimated at Issue by Use of Persistency Factors
larger misestimate than should arise if reasonable care is used--would be needed to affect the mortality ... that the procedure may also present a simple and direct way for testing the reasonableness of the results ...- Authors: Ernest J Moorhead
- Date: Nov 1961
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Mortality; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Estimation methods
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Mortality Rates at Oldest Ages
good results. It has the advantage of allowing direct control over goodness of fit and smoothness. It ... increasingly seems to take a utilitarian view of health care that is less likely to justify significant expenditure ...- Authors: Robert Howard
- Date: Jan 2011
- Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Topics: Demography>Mortality - Demography; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Estimation methods
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Analysis of Mortality in a Small Sample of Older Adults
Analysis of Mortality in a Small Sample of Older Adults This paper presents an analysis of ... sta- tus, an indication of how well money takes care of the individual’s needs, the individual’s perception ...- Authors: Bruce Jones, Hyuk Sung Kwon, Donald H. Paterson, David A. Cunningham, John J. Koval
- Date: Jan 2002
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods>Estimation methods; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Simulation
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A Method for Calculating The Probabilities of Ruin by a Finite Number of Claims Where the Process is Sparre-Anderson
A Method for Calculating The Probabilities of Ruin by a Finite Number of Claims Where the Process is Sparre-Anderson ... y good" and "a s tar t ing va lue has to be care fu l ly chosen". (d} calculates probabilities ...- Authors: William A Bailey
- Date: Jan 1994
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
- Topics: Financial Reporting & Accounting>Statutory accounting; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Estimation methods
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Multidimensional Whittaker-Henderson Graduation with Constraints and Mixed Differences
Multidimensional Whittaker-Henderson Graduation with Constraints and Mixed Differences In this ... large num- ber of constraints that are needed. Care in setting up the graduation can reduce the number ...- Authors: Walter B Lowrie
- Date: Oct 1993
- Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
- Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
- Topics: Experience Studies & Data; Modeling & Statistical Methods>Estimation methods