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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 +4 more
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BMC CancerBackground 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 +3 more
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RisksCapital investment in longevity science—research targeting the biological processes of aging through interventions like cellular reprogramming, AI-driven drug discovery, and biological age monitoring—may create significant divergence between traditional ...
David M. Dror
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Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, Department of Actuarial Mathematics and Statistics [PDF]
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Gender convergence in human survival and the postponement of death [PDF]
, 2012 It has been a long accepted demographic maxim that females outlive males. Using data for England and Wales, we show that life expectancy at age 30 is converging and continuation of this long-term trend suggests it could reach parity in 2030.
Mayhew, L., Smith, D.
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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 +2 more
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The Bayesian Hidden Markov Chain Modeling of the Ghana COVID-19 Blood Type Infection Distribution
Ratio MathematicaThis work uses the Bayesian Poisson-Hidden Markov Model (BP-HMM) to develop a model that properly describes the blood type distribution among newly diagnosed COVID-19 patients.
Joseph Johnson Kwabina Arhinful +3 more
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Damned Lies & Criminal Sentencing Using Evidence-Based Tools [PDF]
, 2017 The boom of big data and predictive analytics has revolutionized business. eHarmony matches customers based on shared likes and expectations for romance, and Target uses similar methods to strategically push its products on shoppers.
Lightbourne, John
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From gateway to value ladder—The curious case of online mutual aid in China
Journal of Risk and Insurance, EarlyView.Abstract This study examines how InsurTech‐enabled information provision, specifically the disclosure of claimant information previously unavailable in conventional insurance, influences individuals' insurance uptake. We leverage Mutual Aid (MA) platforms as a natural context to examine how socially framed loss information, peer influence, and salience
Ze Chen +3 more
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The Scientific World JournalIntroduction. Multilevel models have gained immense popularity across almost every discipline due to the presence of hierarchy in most data and phenomena.
Killian Asampana Asosega +3 more
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