Graduation of Excess Ratio Distributions by the Method of Moments [Discussion]

Mr. Lewis Roberts' paper on Graduation of Excess Ratio Distributions by the Method of Moments is not light reading. The paper is highly technical and it is most tempting to set such papers aside for that later study, which never somehow gets done. Nearly all of us are so engaged in the day-to-day practical problems of insurance that we have little time for fundamental research, but it is only by such fundamental research, by the careful consideration of the theoretical justification of our methods, that our Society can carry out the objects set forth in its Constitution.