ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY
EDINBURGH LOCAL GROUP MEETING
Tuesday 15 January 2002, 6pm in the International Centre for
Mathematical Sciences, 14 India Street, Edinburgh.
(http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/icms/)
Refreshments will be available from 5.30pm.
FINANCIAL STATISTICS
Life and Death. What can we learn from them?
Richard Mccullagh, The Standard Life Assurance Company
Standard Life Assurance Company uses financial statistics extensively in
Its
major areas of work. This talk will give an overview of some of the
areas
where statistics are used. This will be followed by a more detailed look
at
the use of statistics when studying mortality. In a period when
mortality
rates are improving beyond expectations, how can we continue to model
mortality accurately?
Home Insurance - the fight for survival
Kirsty Dalziel, Dunfermline Building Society, Alan Forrest, Base 3
Systems
We present a brief overview and a case study of how statistical methods
are
applied at the Dunfermline Building Society. The case study
investigates
the behaviour of the Society's general insurance customers, evaluating,
in
particular, customers' tenure of Buildings Insurance using survival
analysis.
Non-members welcome. Please forward this email to any other parties who
may find such a meeting of interest, but are not members of this list.
Thanks.
Dave
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Dave Signorini
Secretary, Edinburgh Local Group
(www.bioss.ac.uk/~dave/rssedinburgh.html)
Quadstone Ltd.
Tel: +44 131 240 3179
Fax: +44 131 220 4492
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