Publication:3773148

Hans U. Gerber, Newton L. jun. Bowers, James C. Hickman, Cecil J. Nesbitt, Donald A. Jones

Publication date: 1986

life insurance; single period; benefits; dividends; life tables; life annuities; expenses; reserves; survival distributions; pension funding; population theory; collective risk models; individual risk models; multiple decrement models; net premiums; applications of risk theory; extended period; multiple life functions; valuation theory for pension plans

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

62P05: Applications of statistics to actuarial sciences and financial mathematics

62-01: Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to statistics

91-01: Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to game theory, economics, and finance

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