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Computational Actuarial Science, with R, in Barcelona

, 2016
This Wednesday, I will give a graduate crash course on computational actuarial science, with R, which will be the second part of the lecture of Tuesday.
Arthur Charpentier
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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

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
doaj   +1 more source

On Writing Actuarial Science [PDF]

Annals of Actuarial Science, 2010
openaire   +1 more source

Modern actuarial risk theory using R

, 2008
Modern Actuarial Risk Theory contains what every actuary needs to know about non-life insurance mathematics. It starts with the standard material like utility theory, individual and collective model and basic ruin theory.
Denuit, Michel, Goovaerts, M., Goovaerts, Marc, Dhaene, J., Denuit, M., Dhaene, Jan, Kaas, R., Kaas, Rob   +7 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

Application of Hierarchical/Multilevel Models and Quality of Reporting (2010–2020): A Systematic Review

The Scientific World Journal
Introduction. Multilevel models have gained immense popularity across almost every discipline due to the presence of hierarchy in most data and phenomena.
Killian Asampana Asosega, Atinuke Olusola Adebanji, Eric Nimako Aidoo, Ellis Owusu-Dabo   +3 more
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Basis risk, social comparison, perceptions of fairness, and demand for insurance: A field experiment in Ethiopia

Journal of Risk and Insurance, EarlyView.
Abstract Index insurance lowers agricultural risk but covers only covariate risks. Since farmers do not have complete insurance, they may develop mistrust of insurance when experiencing crop losses and not receiving payouts. Although recent innovations in remote sensing enable the provision of more complete insurance including coverage for ...
Berber Kramer, Maria Porter, Solomon B. Wassie   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multimodal deep learning approaches for improving polygenic risk scores with imaging data

Scientific Reports
Enhancing the predictive accuracy of polygenic risk scores (PRS) can be achieved by incorporating imaging data, which captures disease-related phenotypic variations.
Hyeongmu Kim, Geon Lee, Wonil Chung
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ASC302: Introduction to Actuarial Science / College of Computing, Informatics and Mathematics [PDF]

This course introduces the students to the actuarial science practices. The syllabus for this course provide with the basic understanding of actuarial science and how to become actuary that exist in the market provided by Malaysian’s insurance companies.
UiTM, College of Computing, Informatics and Mathematics
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