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THE ROLE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF THE CREDIBILITY THEORY IN ACTUARIAL PRACTICE

Pravo, 2014
Actuarial science is based on the use of financial and statistical models and depends on the practical framework, starting from the operation of the insurance market through the accounting system and the available data.
Nataša Papić Blagojević, Nenad Stefanović   +1 more
doaj  

Assessing cognitive growth in mathematics using multinomial logistic regression within Bloom’s taxonomy in higher education

Discover Education
Background Understanding how students transition through cognitive levels in mathematics remains central to curriculum design and quality learning assessment.
Senyefia Bosson-Amedenu, Emmanuel Mensah Baah, John Awuah Addor, Francis Ayiah-Mensah, Anthony Joe Turkson, Theodore Oduro-Okyireh   +5 more
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How to optimise tournament draws: The case of the FIFA World Cup

International Transactions in Operational Research, EarlyView.
Abstract The organisers of major sports competitions use different policies with respect to constraints in the group draw. Our paper aims to rationalise these choices by analysing the trade‐off between attractiveness (the number of games played by teams from the same geographic zone) and fairness (the departure of the draw mechanism from a uniform ...
László Csató
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating key predictors of breast cancer through survival: a comparison of AFT frailty models with LASSO, ridge, and elastic net regularization

BMC Cancer
Background Frailty models are extensively utilized in survival analysis to address unobserved heterogeneity among individuals. However, selecting the most robust model for survival prediction, especially in the context of high-dimensional data, continues
Senyefia Bosson-Amedenu, Emmanuel Ayitey, Francis Ayiah-Mensah, Luyton Asare   +3 more
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Covariate-stratified analysis of prostate cancer and competing risk mortality in Ghana: A bootstrapped survival analysis approach

Scientific African
Prostate cancer remains a major health concern in sub-Saharan Africa, where late-stage presentation and comorbidities complicate survival estimation and treatment planning.
Senyefia Bosson-Amedenu, Anthony Joe Turkson, Emmanuel Ayitey, Emmanuel Mensah Baah, Francis Ayiah-Mensah, John Awuah Addor   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Artificial Intelligence in Climate and Sustainable Finance: A Blessing or a Curse?

Journal of Economic Surveys, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT While there are concerns regarding the sustainability of artificial intelligence (AI), it is a potential ally in the transition toward a greener future. It offers advanced tools for data analysis; risk modeling; and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) assessment.
Filippo di Pietro, Pilar Giráldez‐Puig, Pedro R. Palos‐Sánchez, Zbigniew Korzeb   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Gary Hatfield - Minnesota Center for Financial and Actuarial Mathematics MCFAM

, 2020
Dr. Gary Hatfield is a Senior Director and Actuary for Securian Financial. He leads a team of actuaries, data scientists, and quants known internally as the Actuarial Research and Analytics Center of Excellence.

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Construction of Mortality Rate Using Heligman Pollard Model [PDF]

ITM Web of Conferences
The idea of constructing a mortality table lies in reflecting the mortality changes of the member of the study population. This study proposed a construction of the mortality table for male and female participants using the Heligman Pollard model and was
Sari Kurnia Novita, Arfan Nuraziza, Dzakiya Azizah, Rusli Jesslyn Gracsella   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cyber Risk Management: A New Challenge for Actuarial Mathematics

, 2018
A specific kind of insurance that is emerging within the domain of cyber-systems is that of cyber-insurance. It allows for transferring the residual risk associated with network and computer incidents to a third party. Insurance companies are increasingly offering such policies, in particular in the USA, but also in Europe. The emerging trends in cyber
Maria Francesca Carfora, Albina Orlando, Fabio Martinelli, Francesco Mercaldo, Artsiom Yautsiukhin   +4 more
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Welfare consequences of the compound risks of index insurance

Journal of Risk and Insurance, EarlyView.
Abstract Index insurance is an attractive variant on the standard insurance contract that allows the determination of a loss event to be defined by one or more thresholds on an index that is positively correlated with actual losses. Index insurance also comes with a compound risk, basis risk.
Glenn Harrison, Jimmy Martí­nez‐Correa, Karlijn Morsink, Jia Min Ng, J. Todd Swarthout   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source