Actuarial Methods

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Steven Haberman

Steven Haberman

Cass Business School, London, UK

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First published: 15 July 2005

Abstract

Actuarial methods overlap with biostatistics in a number of important areas including the development and application of the survival model, and its extensions—the multiple decrement and multiple state models; projections of populations that involve extrapolations of demographic and biostatistical rates and probabilities; parametric and nonparametric methods of smoothing and curve fitting (known as graduation); and risk classification. In each of these areas, actuarial science has followed the innovations in statistical and biostatistical theory and application and developed these further for specific actuarial applications.

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