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  • Bivariate Schuette Graduation
    Bivariate Schuette Graduation Two-dimensional data can be smoothed by minimizing a combination of the sum of weighted absolute deviations from initial estimates and the sums of absolute values of ...

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    • Authors: Esther Portnoy
    • Date: Jan 1994
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods
  • Crossover in Mortality Rates by Sex
    Crossover in Mortality Rates by Sex Some recent studies have shown a 'crossover' of mortality rates, with female rates exceeding male rates beyond some age around 100. The purpose ...

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    • Authors: Esther Portnoy
    • Date: Oct 1986
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
    • Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Mortality
  • A Closer Look At The Adjustment Coefficient
    A Closer Look At The Adjustment Coefficient The adjustment coefficient R plays an important role in mathematical ruin theory this paper presents several different methods for estimating the ...

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    • Authors: Esther Portnoy
    • Date: Jan 1990
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
    • Topics: Life Insurance>Claims - Life Insurance
  • Bivariate Schuette Graduation of Race-Specific Mortality Rates
    Bivariate Schuette Graduation of Race-Specific Mortality Rates In this paper, Bivariate Schuette graduation is applied to mortality rates among black male retired workers [Social Security data] ...

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    • Authors: Esther Portnoy
    • Date: Jan 1995
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods
  • Session 6: Risk Factors
    Session 6: Risk Factors Discussion of paper presented at Living to 100 and Beyond symposium. Discusses paper by Guo and Wang on the use of data mining to determine the key factors affecting ...

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    • Authors: Esther Portnoy
    • Date: Jan 2002
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Topics: Demography>Longevity
  • Mortality at Ages 65 and Over in a Middle-Class Population
    Mortality at Ages 65 and Over in a Middle-Class Population This paper examines the effects of selection procedures used in epidemiologic studies and suggests that similar procedures could be ...

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    • Authors: Francisco Bayo, Esther Portnoy, Richard T Schwartz, Courtland C Smith, Edward A. Lew, Lawrence Garfinkel
    • Date: Oct 1984
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Problem analysis and definition; Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving>Process and technique refinement
    • Publication Name: Transactions of the SOA
    • Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Mortality
  • Survival Analysis with Disinformation
    Survival Analysis with Disinformation By disinformation we mean the inclusion of data that should not be considered in a study. In this paper we discuss a case in which the presence of ...

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    • Authors: Esther Portnoy
    • Date: Sep 2008
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge>Actuarial methods in business operations
    • Topics: Experience Studies & Data>Mortality; Technology & Applications>Analytics and informatics
  • Regression-Quantile Graduation of Australian Life Tables, 1946 - 1992
    Regression-Quantile Graduation of Australian Life Tables, 1946 - 1992 Australia has conducted ten national censuses since World War II: in 1947, 1954, 1961 and at five-year intervals through ...

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    • Authors: Esther Portnoy
    • Date: Jan 1997
    • Competency: Technical Skills & Analytical Problem Solving
    • Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
    • Topics: Modeling & Statistical Methods
  • Recent Trends in Mortality Rates by Race
    Recent Trends in Mortality Rates by Race This paper was motivated in part by a desire to use, in a variety of classroom situations, some of the readily available statistics on mortality and ...

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    • Authors: Esther Portnoy
    • Date: Jan 1998
    • Competency: External Forces & Industry Knowledge
    • Publication Name: Actuarial Research Clearing House
    • Topics: Demography>Mortality - Demography
  • Expanding Horizons, May 2002 - Issue No. 25
    Expanding Horizons, May 2002 - Issue No. 25 The complete Expanding Horizons newsletter for May 2002. 25436 5/1/2002 12:00:00 AM ...

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    • Authors: James D Broffitt, Stuart Klugman, Esther Portnoy, Patricia A Pruitt, Arnold Shapiro, Conrad Siegel, Sarah Christiansen, James W Daniel, G V Ramanathan, Mary Hardy
    • Date: May 2002
    • Publication Name: Expanding Horizons