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Actuarial Science: Theory and Methodology Hanji Shang
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He wrote a paper that strikes at a fundamental tenet of actuarial science: diversification. The paper shows that the time averages of all portfolios have some nasty theoretical properties(http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.4517). Empiricism is inextricable from theory, data is meaningless outside of norms, science exists within philosophy. For outstanding contributions to statistical theory and practice; for influential collaborations benefiting many important scientific studies; and for implementation of new methodology through the R system and the development of specialist software packages. He published the monumental Theory of Probability in 1939, which remained for many years the only explanation of how to use Bayes to do science. But after a year of trying different things, he realized that the Bayesian actuarial methods worked better than frequentist methods. De Finetti argued that Von Mises criticised it as un-necessarily complex ([von Mises, 1957 (1982), p 99]) while the statistician Maurice Kendall argued that measure theory was fine for mathematicians, but of limited practical use to statisticians and fails “to found a theory of probability as a branch of scientific method” ([Kendall, 1949, p 102]). Arguments and complaints about research methods and methodology are vast, and an enormous literature devoted to adjudicating these arguments has been written. Please consider that before deciding whether to read it. Martin For significant research in extreme value theory, nonlinear time series and nonparametric statistics, with an emphasis on applications to actuarial science and risk management. Although Bayes' rule drew the attention of the greatest statisticians of the twentieth century, some of them vilified both the method and its adherents, crushed it, and declared it dead. Because actuarial education was presented into China in the nineteen eighties, Chinese scholars have paid greater interest to the theoretical research of actuarial science. To balance von Mises' Realism, the Italian actuary, Bruno de Finetti presented a more Nominalist approach. Statistical methods and the application of probability theory are essential to the understanding of data and underlying processes in a very wide variety of fields, including health sciences, economics and finance, social science, (see, e.g., Wall Street Journal 2013, an earlier New York Times article, this YouTube clip from Google and the Maths Careers website; the Wall Street Journal's report on Best Jobs has Mathematician, Statistician and Actuary all in the top ten!). There are around 30 pre- and postdoctoral researchers working under the supervision of 10 full-time professors, in a variety of fields of methodological and applied statistics, including biostatistics and actuarial sciences. "We are looking for people with a solid understanding of network penetration techniques, tools and methodologies that can defend a network from attack," says the job description.