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Big Data and Actuarial Science [PDF]

Big Data and Cognitive Computing, 2020
This article investigates the impact of big data on the actuarial sector. The growing fields of applications of data analytics and data mining raise the ability for insurance companies to conduct more accurate policy pricing by incorporating a broader ...
Hossein Hassani, Stephan Unger, Christina Beneki   +2 more
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actuar: An R Package for Actuarial Science

Journal of Statistical Software, 2008
actuar is a package providing additional Actuarial Science functionality to the R statistical system. The project was launched in 2005 and the package is available on the Comprehensive R Archive Network since February 2006.
Christophe Dutang, Vincent Goulet, Mathieu Pigeon   +2 more
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The concept of comonotonicity in actuarial science and finance: applications [PDF]

Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 2002
In an insurance context, one is often interested in the distribution function of a sum of random variables (rv’s). Such a sum appears when considering the aggregate claims of an insurance portfolio over a certain reference period. It also appears when considering discounted payments related to a single policy or a portfolio, at different future points ...
Jan Dhaene, Michel Denuit, Marc Goovaerts, R. Kaas, David Vyncke   +4 more
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On Teaching Actuarial Science [PDF]

British Actuarial Journal, 2003
Hans Bühlmann
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Mixed Models for Predictive Modelling in Actuarial Science [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2012
We start with a general discussion of mixed (also called multilevel) models and continue with illustrating specific (actuarial) applications of this type of models. Technical details on (linear, generalized, non-linear) mixed models follow: model assumptions, specifications, estimation techniques and methods of inference.
Katrien Antonio, Yanwei Zhang
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Actuarial Science in the Middle Ages [PDF]

Journal of the Staple Inn Actuarial Society, 1951
R. D. Clarke, Geoffrey J. Knapman
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On Writing Actuarial Science [PDF]

Annals of Actuarial Science, 2010
RJ Thomson
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A typology of models used in actuarial science

South African Actuarial Journal, 2006
This paper proposes a categorisation of the models used in actuarial science. It illustrates the application of that categorisation by using it to classify numerous such models. It is suggested that this categorisation, together with the illustrative classification, may be used as a typology for the classification of other such models, and that this ...
RJ Thomson
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Closed-form expressions to Gompertz-Makeham life expectancies: a historical note [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Estudos de População, 2022
Results well known in the actuarial community about closed-form expressions to Gompertz and Gompertz-Makeham life expectancies for a person aged x are still being independently rediscovered to this day.
Filipe Costa de Souza
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A new two-parameter Rayleigh distribution: Statistical properties, actuarial measures, regression analysis, and applications [PDF]

Heliyon
This paper presents a novel two-parameter distribution derived from the Rayleigh distribution, thoroughly investigating its essential mathematical properties.
Ahmed M. Gemeay, Eslam Hussam, Ehab M. Almetwally   +2 more
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