On the Duality of Assumptions Underpinning the Construction of Life Tables

Abstract
We investigate the multiplications of a dual approach to the graduation of the force of mortality based on the modeling of the exposures as gamma random variables, as opposed to the modeling of the numbers of deaths as Poisson random variables.
Volume
27:1
Page
5-22
Year
1997
Categories
Financial and Statistical Methods
Loss Distributions
Business Areas
Other Lines of Business
Publications
ASTIN Bulletin
Authors
Steven Haberman
P Hatzopoulos
Arthur E Renshaw