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Showing 1 to 20 of 264 for “"actuarial"”.
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An Actuarial Description of Penitentiary Inmates
The problem. The problem was to obtain Q sort statement assignments for two code types of Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) profiles and compare these applications with a random sample to determine whether any patterns of differences exist and to state these differences. Procedure. …
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Bayesian Neural Networks for Actuarial Mortality Modelling
… learning, and the interpretability of parametric actuarial laws. We demonstrate that these Bayesian hybrid models provide promising forecasting capabilities and produce reliable uncertainty intervals, even under conditions of severe data sparsity. More specifically, our results indicate that these …
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An actuarial approach to motor insurance rating
This thesis describes an actuarial structure for the practical analysis of motor insurance premium rating. An underlying theme emphasises that judgements are being made taking into account many factors e.g. economical, statistical and technical, therefore it is necessary to bring into the decision …
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Distance based vehicle insurance : actuarial and planning issues
Distance based vehicle insurance (sometimes know as “Pay as you drive,” “Pay by the mile” or “Pay per-km” insurance) has long been advocated by transportation planners as a transportation demand management (TDM) strategy. In addition to reducing congestion and greenhouse gas emissions, it also has …
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Actuarial Contributions to the Study of Health Insurance
… examines how patient characteristics and actuarial methods can be combined to design fairer, more sustainable health insurance in Hungary. I start by mapping the landscape of key private health insurance products and the pricing techniques that underpin them. Alongside classic actuarial …
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Mindsets: lived experiences of black actuarial science students
… lens to explore the experiences of six black actuarial science students at the University of Cape Town (UCT). With the underrepresentation of black African students in South Africa's actuarial science exacerbating societal imbalances, the research aims to unveil their experiences and factors …
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An Estimation Problem of Large Claims on Actuarial Decisions
The problem of estimating large claims is important in order to help insurance companies set premiums at an appropriate level. The basic insurance risk model is based on the Cramer-Lundberg renewal model. This model outlines five conditions related to the claim size process, claim times, claim …
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A Study of Actuarial Models for Insurance Based Applications
Actuarial aspects of two important fields of insurance are considered: calculating personal injury damages for working age adults (liability insurance) and measuring the mortality in insurance based populations (e.g. life insurance and pensions). The contribution of the thesis is to demonstrate a …
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A study of the fundamentals of actuarial economic models
… and model the economic variables required for actuarial calculations. Traditionally actuaries have only used average future values to describe these variables and they have tended to use relatively informal methods for determining these averages. These informal methods are potentially subject …
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Some optimal control problems in financial and actuarial mathematics
… encompasses four stochastic control problems in actuarial science and financial mathematics. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the thesis and relevant topics that would be covered in the subsequent chapters. Chapters 2, 3, and 4 are concerned with three individual actuarial problems, which …
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Actuarial resources in high demand, what makes them stay?
The shortage of qualified actuaries and actuarial science resources in general, remains a challenge for organisations operating in the South African financial and insurance sectors. Access to such resources are a business imperative for these organisations and, therefore, there is a compelling …
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A theory based stochastic investment model for actuarial use
This thesis reviews the origins, development and uses of asset-liability modelling, as well as existing largely stochastic investment models, notably those of the Maturity Guarantees Working Party (1980), Wilkie (1986,1995) and Thomson (1996). A stochastic investment model is developed which …
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Coping with uncertainty : aporia and play in actuarial and financial practices
… focus a contradiction that seems to persist in actuarial and financial practice. Specifically, how efforts to manage the uncertain and potentially catastrophic future, via actuarial and financial calculative modeling, fail precisely where they succeed. The purpose is to disclose that the problem …
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The analysis of real estate in a finance and actuarial framework
… commonly used in other areas of finance and in actuarial science. Option pricing techniques for the evaluation of real estate investments that have options embedded within their lease terms are then developed and applied to the valuation of upward only rent review properties under the …
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Imbalanced learning using actuarial modified loss function in tree-based models
… insurance loss modeling. We propose two novel actuarial modified loss functions, namely, weighted sum of squared error and Canberra loss functions. This modification imposes a significant penalty on grouping nonzero observations with zero ones at the splitting procedure. We examine and compare …
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