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How cold is too cold? A theoretical analysis of the optimal trigger for index insurance for frost damage to crops

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Agricultural Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Crop insurance is undoubtedly an extremely valuable element in protecting agricultural businesses, but in many cases standard indemnity‐based products have had very low uptake due to high transaction costs elevating premiums to unaffordable levels.
Amogh Prakasha Kumar   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modeling and Prediction of the Mortality Trend due to Accidents in Golestan Province Based on the Lee-carter Model

open access: yesتحقیقات سلامت در جامعه, 2022
Introduction and purpose: Accidents are one of the main causes of death that impose a great socioeconomic burden on society. This study aimed to model and predict the trend of mortality due to accidents in Golestan province, Iran, from 2011 to 2020 ...
Alireza Heidari   +5 more
doaj  

Real‐World Evaluation of Talquetamab for the Treatment of Relapsed/Refractory Multiple Myeloma (RRMM): An International Myeloma Working Group Immunotherapy Registry Real‐World Analysis

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Hematology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Talquetamab is a GPRC5D × CD3 bispecific antibody approved for relapsed/refractory multiple myeloma (RRMM). This is the first real‐world study to comprehensively report muco‐cutaneous toxicities, infections, and efficacy of talquetamab in 151 patients across five countries with the longest follow‐up reported enabling better efficacy and ...
Murali Janakiram   +94 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Fuzzy-Random Extension of the Lee–Carter Mortality Prediction Model

open access: yesInternational Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems
The Lee–Carter model is a useful dynamic stochastic model to represent the evolution of central mortality rates throughout time. This model only considers the uncertainty about the coefficient related to the mortality trend over time but not to the age ...
Jorge de Andrés-Sánchez   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The actuarial Lee-Carter model

open access: yes, 2011
71 σ.Το αναλογιστικό μοντέλο Lee-Carter αποτελεί μια σύγχρονη μέθοδο πρόβλεψης ρυθμού θνησιμότητας και έχει εφαρμοστεί σε διάφορους πληθυσμούς. Αυτή η διπλωματική εργασία παρουσιάζει τα βασικά στοιχεία που χαρακτηρίζουν το μοντέλο καθώς και εφαρμογές του
Anastasiadis, Kostas A.   +1 more
core   +1 more source

On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

Breast Cancer Mortality Trends and Predictions to 2030 and Its Attributable Risk Factors in East and South Asian Countries

open access: yesFrontiers in Nutrition, 2022
BackgroundAmidst the rising breast cancer burden in Asia, we aim to predict the future mortality risk due to breast cancer and identify the risk-attributable deaths for breast cancer among East and South Asian countries.MethodsWe used country-level data ...
Sumaira Mubarik   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sociodemographic Factors Associated with Hours Worked by Primary Carers in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Primary caregivers constitute a major unpaid workforce in Australia. The aim of this study was to determine the sociodemographic factors that are associated with carer workloads. Multinomial logistic regression modelling was applied to the nation‐wide Australian Government survey.
Andrew J. Hamilton
wiley   +1 more source

Lee-Carter mortality forecasting: a multi-country comparison of variants and extensions [PDF]

open access: yes
We compare the short- to medium-term accuracy of five variants or extensions of the Lee-Carter method for mortality forecasting. These include the original Lee-Carter, the Lee-Miller and Booth-Maindonald-Smith variants, and the more flexible Hyndman ...
Heather Booth   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

Lee-Carter model and Kernel PCA

open access: yes, 2022
This thesis investigates the application of Kernel Principal Component Analysis (KPCA) method on the Lee-Carter model, which is a two-step model for estimating and forecasting mortality rates (Lee and Carter, 1992). The motivation comes from the possible
Wu, Yuanqi
core  

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