Actuarial Outpost http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/actuarial_discussion_forum Actuarial discussion forum and jobs, home of the Actuarial Outpost en Sun, 19 May 2013 09:51:33 GMT vBulletin 600 http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/actuarial_discussion_forum/images/misc/rss.jpg Actuarial Outpost http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/actuarial_discussion_forum Credibility for memeber from the same group http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/actuarial_discussion_forum/showthread.php?t=260992&goto=newpost Sun, 19 May 2013 06:56:21 GMT In Chapter 49 of ASM, the... In Chapter 49 of ASM, the example is as followed:

Annual claim counts follows a possson distribution with mean λ
Within a group,λ=θ or 2θ, with each possibility equally likely.
Over all groups,θ=0.2 with probability 0.75 and θ=0.6 with probability 0.25

A group is selected Calculate the Buhlmann credibility factor to assign to one year of experience from one individual of that group for computing future claim counts from an individual randomly selected from that group.

The solution indicated that EPV is a mixed distribution and should be calculated by conditional variance formulea:

E(Var(X|λ))+Var(E(X|λ)) I was wondering when I should use the conditional formulea in calculating EPV, whether there is a criteria?

Thank you ]]> Exam 4/C - Construction and Evaluation of Actuarial Models zhenyuan http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/actuarial_discussion_forum/showthread.php?t=260992 variance of hypothetical means for grouped data http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/actuarial_discussion_forum/showthread.php?t=260991&goto=newpost Sun, 19 May 2013 06:40:08 GMT In Chpt 49 of ASM, example... In Chpt 49 of ASM, example 49C describe a case of VHM calculation for grouped data. The example is as followed:

There are two groups of insureds, A and B. Each group is equally large. The number of claims for each memeber of either group follows a poission distribution.

You are given the following information on mean number of claims for memebers of each group.

Group Average hypothetical mean variance of hypothetical means

A 0.1 0.04
B 0.2 0.09

Calculate the buhlmann credibility to assign to one observation of one member.

The solution use a conditional variance formulea to calculate of VHM but I think VHM is simply the variance of 0.1 and 0.2(two constant), why those two constants have variance? ]]> Exam 4/C - Construction and Evaluation of Actuarial Models zhenyuan http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/actuarial_discussion_forum/showthread.php?t=260991 Google is alleged to have engaged in tax evasion in the UK http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/actuarial_discussion_forum/showthread.php?t=260990&goto=newpost Sun, 19 May 2013 06:11:51 GMT A former Google employee in... A former Google employee in the UK has handed over 100,000 emails to HM Revenue & Customs. :link:

From these article :link: :link:, it sounds like Google may have gone beyond tax avoidance to tax evasion in it's treatment of ad sales in the UK. The gist of the article is that Google would use Google UK employees to find a client, negotiate prices, write up a sales contract and then send it to Google Ireland where the contract was closed. Google is arguing that the employees at Google UK weren't selling anything, that it was Google Ireland making the sales, but they paid their Google UK employees bonuses for their sales and hired employees to close sales. By doing this, they may have created a taxable presence in the UK....

In one of the articles I read, but can't find at the moment, it sounded like Google may have been engaging in practices similar to what some mail order companies were doing in the 1960s and 70s and there's a possibility that they've been caught by the policies that were put in place to stop those practices.

Anyway... :popcorn: ]]> Political Issues Fish Actuary http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/actuarial_discussion_forum/showthread.php?t=260990 register for fm exam http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/actuarial_discussion_forum/showthread.php?t=260989&goto=newpost Sun, 19 May 2013 06:10:06 GMT i want to take the FM exam in... i want to take the FM exam in august but the registration now is closed for June. do you guysknow when the registration is open again ?? i need to pay it as early as possible
thanks ]]> Exam 2/FM - Financial Mathematics thinhnham2806 http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/actuarial_discussion_forum/showthread.php?t=260989 Please critique my resume, many thanks! http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/actuarial_discussion_forum/showthread.php?t=260988&goto=newpost Sun, 19 May 2013 04:10:47 GMT Dear all:

I've attached my resume in both doc. and pdf format. Please critique the shit out of it. Please don't worry about my feelings because my self-esteem is pretty much destroyed by grad school. Thanks in advance for your time and advices.

P.S.
1. As you can probably tell, being a career changer I don't have many relevant experiences. Thus the reason it's one and a half page long is simply because I don't know which ones are more important than the others. Please let me know so I can get rid of the irrelevant categories.

2. The award section is taking a lot of space. Given my situation, is it worth to keep them in there?

3. Is it necessary to have a summary section near the top? If so, what would you recommend to include in this section. My mom is an accountant and her summary section on the resume is just a short paragraph but would bullet form be preferred?

Thank you again for your help.
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]]> Careers - Employment hairgreen http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/actuarial_discussion_forum/showthread.php?t=260988 Anyone else going to the Atlanta NABC? http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/actuarial_discussion_forum/showthread.php?t=260987&goto=newpost Sun, 19 May 2013 03:57:38 GMT I'll be in the GNTs through Sunday. (Hopefully...)

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Few Americans had probably heard of Rob Ford before yesterday evening, when a bizarre story about the mayor of Toronto allegedly smoking crack cocaine appeared first on Gawker and then the Toronto Star, and promptly went viral. Gawker editor John Cook and two Star reporters were recently shown a bizarre video seemingly depicting Ford smoking what appears to be a crack pipe in the company of two other men. (In the video, the person who looks like Ford is also heard referring to Justin Trudeau, the son of revered Canadian politician Pierre Trudeau and the current leader of the Canadian Liberal Party as a "fag.") According to the Star, the video is currently in the possession of a small group of Somali men involved in the Toronto drug trade who are trying to finance a move to Western Canada. They are currently asking for over $100,000 to release the tape.
New Republic piece on Toronto's colourful mayor. ]]> Political Issues Camillus http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/actuarial_discussion_forum/showthread.php?t=260984 Multiple Textbooks for Sale http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/actuarial_discussion_forum/showthread.php?t=260983&goto=newpost Sat, 18 May 2013 22:43:29 GMT BP Exam FM 2008 - Book and... BP Exam FM 2008 - Book and Q&A Bank
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Based of course, only on those people who want their Facebook friends of friends to be public.

I know this seems a bit silly, but obviously there is a slow way of doing this, which is to get tons of FB friends and look at their Friends of Friends but this is ridiculously slow and annoying....

Instead, I wonder if there is some technique within Facebook, inc. where they can quickly dump all the facebook friends of friends data into Excel or SAS or Access

and then you can answer questions like these:

"What is the average degree of friends of friends you have to go through to connect any random Facebook user's friend list with any other's selected at random?" I think it's about 7 degrees of friends of friends

"Which town, college, or demographic of facebook users is the most insular as far as how many degrees of friends you have to go through to get out?"

"Are there any enclaves of facebook users and their friends where there's people with more than 10 friends, yet their network of friends does not connect to most other facebook users?"

Or maybe they could have a software program that, for privacy purposes, provides all information about location, age, university, and town of every facebook user but replaces the person's name with an arbitrary number. ]]> Non-Actuarial Topics UFActuary http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/actuarial_discussion_forum/showthread.php?t=260981 COPPER RIVER SALMON SEASON!!!! http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/actuarial_discussion_forum/showthread.php?t=260980&goto=newpost Sat, 18 May 2013 20:40:52 GMT MMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... MMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

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Inbox me if interested ]]> Exam 4/C - Construction and Evaluation of Actuarial Models john_fong90 http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/actuarial_discussion_forum/showthread.php?t=260979 How much should a professional college grad have saved by age 33 http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/actuarial_discussion_forum/showthread.php?t=260978&goto=newpost Sat, 18 May 2013 18:06:57 GMT Trying to add a poll to this... Trying to add a poll to this thread ]]> Non-Actuarial Topics UFActuary http://www.actuarialoutpost.com/actuarial_discussion_forum/showthread.php?t=260978