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A linear algebraic method for pricing temporary life annuities and insurance policies [PDF]
, 2010 We recast the valuation of annuities and life insurance contracts under mortality and interest rates, both of which are stochastic, as a problem of solving a system of linear equations with random perturbations.
Date, P, Jalen, L, Mamon, R, Wang, IC
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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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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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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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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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Applied SciencesThis study examined the factors influencing student academic performance in the Bachelor of Science (BSc) Actuarial Science programme, focusing on Grade 12 mathematics marks, admission point (AP) scores, socioeconomic background, and progression rates ...
Moeketsi Mosia +3 more
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Fitting generalised linear models to car claims data [PDF]
, 2012 Generalised linear models (GLMs) overcome the limitations of Normal regression models since they can accommodate any distribution that is a member of the exponential family. These models allow transformation of the response variable through the canonical
Camilleri, Liberato +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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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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Optimal asset allocation for aggregated defined benefit pension funds with stochastic interest rates [PDF]
, 2008 In this paper we study the optimal management of an aggregated pension fund of defined benefit type, in the presence of a stochastic interest rate. We suppose that the sponsor can invest in a savings account, in a risky stock and in a bond, with the ...
Josa-Fombellida, Ricardo +1 more
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