Download or read book Catalogue of Insurance Publications American and Foreign written by Spectator Company (New York, N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Standards and Their Stories written by Martha Lampland and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standardization is one of the defining aspects of modern life, its presence so pervasive that it is usually taken for granted. However cumbersome, onerous, or simply puzzling certain standards may be, their fundamental purpose in streamlining procedures, regulating behaviors, and predicting results is rarely questioned. Indeed, the invisibility of infrastructure and the imperative of standardizing processes signify their absolute necessity. Increasingly, however, social scientists are beginning to examine the origins and effects of the standards that underpin the technology and practices of everyday life. Standards and Their Stories explores how we interact with the network of standards that shape our lives in ways both obvious and invisible. The main chapters analyze standardization in biomedical research, government bureaucracies, the insurance industry, labor markets, and computer technology, providing detailed accounts of the invention of "standard humans" for medical testing and life insurance actuarial tables, the imposition of chronological age as a biographical determinant, the accepted means of determining labor productivity, the creation of international standards for the preservation and access of metadata, and the global consequences of "ASCII imperialism" and the use of English as the lingua franca of the Internet. Accompanying these in-depth critiques are a series of examples that depict an almost infinite variety of standards, from the controversies surrounding the European Union's supposed regulation of banana curvature to the minimum health requirements for immigrants at Ellis Island, conflicting (and ever-increasing) food portion sizes, and the impact of standardized punishment metrics like "Three Strikes" laws. The volume begins with a pioneering essay from Susan Leigh Star and Martha Lampland on the nature of standards in everyday life that brings together strands from the several fields represented in the book. In an appendix, the editors provide a guide for teaching courses in this emerging interdisciplinary field, which they term "infrastructure studies," making Standards and Their Stories ideal for scholars, students, and those curious about why coffins are becoming wider, for instance, or why the Financial Accounting Standards Board refused to classify September 11 as an "extraordinary" event.
Download or read book Modern Actuarial Theory and Practice written by Philip Booth and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years since the publication of the best-selling first edition, the incorporation of ideas and theories from the rapidly growing field of financial economics has precipitated considerable development of thinking in the actuarial profession. Modern Actuarial Theory and Practice, Second Edition integrates those changes and presents an up-to-date, comprehensive overview of UK and international actuarial theory, practice and modeling. It describes all of the traditional areas of actuarial activity, but in a manner that highlights the fundamental principles of actuarial theory and practice as well as their economic, financial, and statistical foundations.
Download or read book List of Serials in the University of Illinois Library written by Francis Keese Wynkoop Drury and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transactions of the 21st International Congress of Actuaries Zurich and Lausanne 19th 26 June 1980 written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Publications written by Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.) and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transactions of the 22nd International Congress of Actuaries Sydney Australia 21 27 October 1984 Subject 5 Actuarial aspects of investment written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of the Institute of Actuaries written by Institute of Actuaries (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members issued with v. 35-46 with separate paging.
Download or read book Bureau Report written by United States. Social Security Administration. Office of Research and Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Engineering Society written by Kerstin Brückweh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explaining crime by reference to abnormalities of the brain is just one example of how the human and social sciences have influenced the approach to social problems in Western societies since 1880. Focusing on applications such as penal policy, therapy, and marketing, this volume examines how these sciences have become embedded in society.
Download or read book Journal of the Institute of Actuaries and Assurance Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members issued with v. 35- with separate paging.
Download or read book Actuarial Mathematics written by Harry H. Panjer and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1986 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These lecture notes from the 1985 AMS Short Course examine a variety of topics from the contemporary theory of actuarial mathematics. Recent clarification in the concepts of probability and statistics has laid a much richer foundation for this theory. Other factors that have shaped the theory include the continuing advances in computer science, the flourishing mathematical theory of risk, developments in stochastic processes, and recent growth in the theory of finance. In turn, actuarial concepts have been applied to other areas such as biostatistics, demography, economic, and reliability engineering.
Download or read book Claim Models written by Greg Taylor and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of articles addresses the most modern forms of loss reserving methodology: granular models and machine learning models. New methodologies come with questions about their applicability. These questions are discussed in one article, which focuses on the relative merits of granular and machine learning models. Others illustrate applications with real-world data. The examples include neural networks, which, though well known in some disciplines, have previously been limited in the actuarial literature. This volume expands on that literature, with specific attention to their application to loss reserving. For example, one of the articles introduces the application of neural networks of the gated recurrent unit form to the actuarial literature, whereas another uses a penalized neural network. Neural networks are not the only form of machine learning, and two other papers outline applications of gradient boosting and regression trees respectively. Both articles construct loss reserves at the individual claim level so that these models resemble granular models. One of these articles provides a practical application of the model to claim watching, the action of monitoring claim development and anticipating major features. Such watching can be used as an early warning system or for other administrative purposes. Overall, this volume is an extremely useful addition to the libraries of those working at the loss reserving frontier.
Download or read book Insurance and Risk Theory written by Marc Goovaerts and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadian financial institutions have been in rapid change in the past five years. In response to these changes, the Department of Finance issued a discussion paper: The Regulation of Canadian Financial Institutions, in April 1985, and the government intends to introduce legislation in the fall. This paper studi.es the combinantion of financial institutions from the viewpoint of ruin probability. In risk theory developed to describe insurance companies [1,2,3,4,5J, the ruin probability of a company with initial reserve (capital) u is 6 1 -:;-7;;f3 u 1jJ(u) = H6 e H6 (1) Here,we assume that claims arrive as a Poisson process, and the claim amount is distributed as exponential distribution with expectation liS. 6 is the loading, i.e., premium charged is (1+6) times expected claims. Financial institutions are treated as "insurance companies": the difference between interest charged and interest paid is regarded as premiums, loan defaults are treated as claims.
Download or read book Nondiscrimination in Insurance Act S 2477 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Antitrust, Monopoly, and Business Rights and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The History of Actuarial Science Vol X written by Steven Haberman and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A book which covers the key period in the history of actuarial science from the mid-17th century to the early 19th century. There are reprints of the most important treatises, pamphlets, tables and writings which trace the development of the actuarial industry.
Download or read book Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Damages Calculations written by John O. Ward and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-22 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on litigation damages, economic and non-economic, including punitive damages; their definitions, calculations, and assignments in the US and EU. This book examines areas of convergence and divergence in the academic and practical treatment of damages issues in the US and EU.
