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First Quarter Chronicle of COVID-19: An Attempt to Measure Governments’ Responses
Risks, 2020 The crisis caused by the outbreak of COVID-19 revealed the global unpreparedness for handling the impact of a pandemic. In this paper, we present a first quarter chronicle of COVID-19 in Hubei China, Italy and Spain, particularly focusing on infection ...
Şule Şahin +7 more
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Energy Engineering and Control Systems, 2023 Analysis of the controlled object, as well as methods and models applied for controlling the heat supply process in a city and urban districts has been carried out.
Serhii Babych +4 more
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Assessing the effectiveness of road safety measures in Barcelona (2013-2018)
Heliyon, 2023 Introduction: This article aims to determine the effectiveness and extent of measures taken to decrease the severity of traffic crashes in Barcelona from 2013 to 2018. This will be achieved through an analysis of the traffic crash data.
Lluís Bermúdez, Isabel Morillo
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A Multiple Regression Analysis of Personality’s Impact on Actuarial Exam Performance [PDF]
, 2011 Existing literature indicates that there is some connection between personality and both academic and work-related performance. The author\u27s intent for the research described herein is to explore this connection for students majoring in actuarial ...
Ciaffone, Matthew
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An observation‐driven state‐space model for claims size modelling
Canadian Journal of Statistics, EarlyView.Abstract State‐space models are popular in econometrics. Recently, these models have gained some popularity in the actuarial literature. The best known state‐space models are of the Kalman‐filter type. These are called parameter‐driven because the observations do not impact the state‐space dynamics.
Jae Youn Ahn +2 more
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Fractional Norms and Quasinorms Do Not Help to Overcome the Curse of Dimensionality
Entropy, 2020 The curse of dimensionality causes the well-known and widely discussed problems for machine learning methods. There is a hypothesis that using the Manhattan distance and even fractional lp quasinorms (for p less than 1) can help to overcome the curse of ...
Evgeny M. Mirkes +2 more
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On a Functional Equation in Actuarial Mathematics
Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 2001 Searching for a mathematical justification of ``Gompertz's law of mortality'' and of other `noteworthy fundamental formulas' of actuarial mathematics, \textit{A. De Morgan} [Assurance Mag. J. Inst. Actuaries 81, 181-184 (1859)] and \textit{M. Chini} [Periodico di Mat. (3) 4, 264-270 (1907; JFM 38.0373.02)] determined the differentiable solutions to the
Riedel, T., Sablik, M., Sahoo, P.K.
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Robust bootstrap procedures for the chain-ladder method [PDF]
, 2017 Insurers are faced with the challenge of estimating the future reserves needed to handle historic and outstanding claims that are not fully settled. A well-known and widely used technique is the chain-ladder method, which is a deterministic algorithm. To
Peremans, Kris +3 more
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Optimal dividends for a NatCat insurer in the presence of a climate tipping point
Canadian Journal of Statistics, EarlyView.Abstract We study optimal dividend strategies for an insurance company facing natural catastrophe claims, anticipating the arrival of a climate tipping point after which the claim intensity and/or the claim size distribution of the underlying risks deteriorates irreversibly.
Hansjörg Albrecher +2 more
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Modeling and Performance of Bonus-Malus Systems: Stationarity versus Age-Correction
Risks, 2014 In a bonus-malus system in car insurance, the bonus class of a customer is updated from one year to the next as a function of the current class and the number of claims in the year (assumed Poisson).
Søren Asmussen
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