Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences
 
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2009
 
6 July 2009 (Monday), 3:30 pm, WSC 277 (or WSC 248)
ARG Seminar: Abdelhakim Necir
Topic: Distorted risk measures for additive losses: dependence and copula approach
 
24 June 2009 (Wednesday), 3:30 pm, WSC 277
ARG Seminar: David Stanford (based on joint work with Amin Hassan Zadeh)
Topic: Exact credibility for phase-type distributions
Abstract: Exact credibility results are well-known for the linear exponential class of distributions, and have been the subject of extensions to various other classes. In this talk, I will demonstrate that exact credibility applies to all PH distributions, and present the necessary form of the conjugate prior that gives rise to this result. Following an illustration of the result for the Erlangian case, we will indicate some open problems that remain.
 
18 June 2009 (Thursday), 3:30 pm, WSC 277
ARG Seminar: Abdelhakim Necir
Topic: Statistical inference for actuarial risk measures of heavy-tailed losses
 
ARG News: Conference
Topic: Multivariate Risks and Copulas (April 14-17, 2010)
 
ARG News: Call for papers
Topic: Actuarial and Financial Risks: Models, Statistical Inference, and Case Studies
 
29 April - 1 May 2009, Off-Site
ARG Retreat: UWO Members of the ARG
Topic: Solving actuarial problems
 
27 April 2009 (Monday), 3:30 pm, WSC 277
ARG Seminar: Amin Hassanzadeh
Topic: Fitting bivariate losses by a bivariate phase-type distribution 
 
20 April 2009 (Monday), 3:30 pm, WSC 277
ARG Meeting: Bruce Jones (Convenor of Debates) 
Topic: Problems of interest to London Life
 
23 March 2009 (Monday), 3:30 pm, WSC 277  
ARG Seminar: Alexandru Vali Asimit  
Topic: Extremes on the discounted aggregate claims in a time dependent model 
 
9 March 2009 (Monday), 3:30 pm, WSC 277
ARG Seminar: Ilie-Radu Mitric
Topic: On the Gerber-Shiu function for multi-layer MAP-2 models incorporating interest
 
23 February 2009 (Monday), 3:30 pm, WSC 277
ARG Seminar: Xiaoming Liu
Topic: Comonotonicty and its application in stochastic mortality
 
2 February 2009 (Monday), 3:30 pm, WSC 277
ARG Seminar: Ricardas Zitikis

Topic: Mean, variance, and covariance - what the nonmathematician may not know about them

Note: This will be a "provocative" talk about the mean, variance, and covariance that will lead into a very serious area of mathematical analysis with manifold applications in actuarial science, econometrics, and statistics.
 
26 January 2009 (Monday), 3:30 pm, WSC 277
ARG Seminar: Jiandong Ren
Topic: An approximation to the distribution and the moments of the number of renewals in Markov arrival processes
 
12 January 2009 (Monday), 4:30 pm, WSC 277
ARG Meeting: Ideas, plans, etc.
 
2008
 
29 December 2008 (Monday), 11:30 am, WSC 277
ARG Seminar: Edward Furman 
Topic: Multivariate Tweedie distributions and some related capital-at-risk analysis
 
22 December 2008 (Monday), 11:30 am, WSC 277  
ARG Seminar: Bruce Jones  
Topic: Dependence of two lifetimes and the four-state model representation 
 
1 December 2008 (Monday), 11:30 am, WSC 277  
ARG Seminar: David Stanford  
Topic: An extension to credibility theory 
 
24 November 2008 (Monday), 11:30 am, WSC 277
ARG Seminar: Kristina Sendova
Topic: An open problem (continuation)
[Seminar notes in PDF
 
17 November 2008 (Monday), 11:30 am, WSC 277
ARG Seminar: Kristina Sendova
Topic: An open problem
 
10 November 2008 (Monday), 11:30 am, WSC 277
ARG Meeting: Ideas, plans, etc.
 
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