Description: A discussion on machine learning and how it can be used for forecasting.

Description: This article discusses techniques used to create risk scores to help determine appropriate primary care panel sizes for a provider organization.

Description: Read the August 2018 issue of Predictive Analytics and Futurism newsletter published by the Predictive Analytics and Futurism Section.

Description: The Possible Role of Convolutional Neural Networks in Mortality Risk Protection

Description: Read the June issue of Predictive Analytics & Futurism published by the Predictive Analytics & Futurism Section. Newsletters provide practical information for the working actuary, articles on trends that impact sections and news about section activities.

Description: This article describes a method that can be useful when re-fitting a risk score model to a population of only moderate size. Learn how to use concepts like ridge regression to train a model with partial credibility.

Description: This is the strong message to encourage all actuaries in the world, who are struggling against low/zero/negative interest rate. Japanese actuaries have been struggling with low/zero/negative interest rate since 1995. There are experiences in asset management, product revision, pricing strategy, and capital management that can be applicable to other countries.

Description: Description of methods for extracting and reformatting the existing mortality tables using R. Methods and formats for storage are discussed in the second article. Intent is to generate discussion regarding the format of our stored mortality tables. Value is in the demonstration of task automation in R and in the reduction of duplicate work across companies related to reformatting tables.

Description: The session will provide attendees with a framework of what goals to think about when building and utilizing a predictive modeling framework in New Sales and Renewal Underwriting mid-market, level funding, balance funding, and self-funding group health business.

Description: Generative AI has become a hot topic since ChatGPT became one of the most well-known Machine Learning models ever. There are many different generative models out there, and in this presentation, we explore the possibilities, benefits, reservations, and alternative use-cases of using Generative Adversarial Networks to generate health insurance claims data.