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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 259-276
Continuous mortality investigation, assured lives 1924-38
259 CONTINUOUS MORTALITY INVESTIGATION: ASSURED LIVES 1924-38 STATISTICS have recently been published giving in three periods of 5 years each for the 15 years 1924-38 the exposed to risk and deaths at each age for each year of duration from 0-4 and ... read more >>
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- MacGillivray, E. J.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 424-447
Legal notes
424 BY EVAN JAMES MACGILLIVRAY, B.A., LL.B. One of His Majesty's Counsel Pritchard-Jones v. Le Vaye The primary object of the Courts (Emergency COURT OF APPEAL Powers) Act 1939 is to give relief to a debtor from the misfortunes which the war has brought ... read more >>
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- Elderton, W. P.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 96-98
Discontinuity in the force of mortality
The force of mortality when defined in terms of lx appears to be a continuous function and is assumed to be so in actuarial practice. There are, however, circumstances in which the force of mortality is discontinuous. 96 DISCONTINUITY IN THE FORCE OF ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 124-132
Official publications
OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS [The appearance of a publication in the following list does not imply that a formal review will not appear in the JOURNAL.] ANNOTATED L I S T of recent official publications issued to the end of October 1940, containing ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 277-283
Continuous mortality investigation: annuity experience
277 CONTINUOUS MORTALITY INVESTIGATION: ANNUITY EXPERIENCE AFTER the mortality of Annuitants had been investigated for 1900—20, monetary tables were prepared based on a forecast of mortality for annuities purchased at the date of the publication of the ... read more >>
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- Lidstone, G. J.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 284-291
Notes on the Poisson frequency distribution
284 NOTES ON THE POISSON FREQUENCY DISTRIBUTION BY G. J. LIDSTONE, LL.D., ETC. I N his recent important paper [this Volume, pp. 5-47] Mr H. L. Seal has incidentally called attention to Poisson's Frequency Dis- tribution, hitherto rather unaccountably ... read more >>
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- Elderton, W. P.; Nicholl, C. C.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 413-419
Notes on foreign actuarial journals
413 NOTES ON FOREIGN ACTUARIAL JOURNALS BY SIR W. P. ELDERTON, C.B.E., F.I.A., F.F.A., PH.D. (Oslo) AND C. C. NICHOLL, O.B.E., B.A., F.I.A., F.F.A. AMERICA Transactions of the Actuarial Society of America, Vol. XLI, Part 1 R. D. MURPHY. Address of the ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 420-423
Official publications
420 OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS [The appearance of a publication in the following list does not imply that a formal review will not appear in the JOURNAL.] ANNOTATED L I S T of recent official publications issued to the end of June 1942, containing ... read more >>
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- Lidstone, G. J.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 68-95
Notes on interpolation (part II). - III(i) continued. The origin of the throw-back device. IV. Aitken's new method of inverse interpolation. V. The connexion of the throw-back with Stirling's and Bessel's formulae
68 NOTES ON INTERPOLATION (PART II).*—III (i) CONTINUED. THE ORIGIN OF THE THROW-BACK DEVICE. IV. AIT- KEN'S NEW METHOD OF INVERSE INTERPOLATION. V. THE CONNEXION OF THE THROW-BACK WITH STIRLING'S AND BESSEL'S FORMULAE BY G. J. LIDSTONE, LL.D., ETC. III ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 169-182
Reviews I
169 REVIEWS Reports of the Unemployment Insurance Statutory Committee on the Financial Condition of the Unemployment Fund. [Seventh General and Fourth Agricultural Reports, as at 31 Dec. 1939. Pp. 27. H.M. Stationery Office. 1940. Price 6d.] T H E ... read more >>
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- MacGillivray, E. J.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 292-321
Legal notes
292 COURT OF APPEAL 1940. December 13. [1941] I All E.R. III. 57 T.L.R. 247. LEGAL NOTES BY EVAN JAMES MACGILLIVRAY, B.A., LL.B. One of His Majesty's Counsel Sothern-Smith v. Clancy In consideration of a single premium payment an insurance company ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 409-410
Continuous mortality investigation: assured lives 1924-38
REVIEWS Survival Models and Their Estimation. By DICK LONDON, FSA published by ACTEX Publications, Winsted and Abington, Connecticut 1986. This preliminary edition of the first eight chapters has been prepared for the use of those taking examinations ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 352
New Year honours, 1942: Sir Sydney Turner
352 NEW YEAR HONOURS, 1942 SIR SIDNEY TURNER, C.B.E. AMONG those honoured by His Majesty the King in the Honours List published on 1st January, 1942, was Mr Sidney Turner, C.B.E., B.A., F.I.A., the Accountant General and Controller of Pension Funds of ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 340-351
Reviews II
340 REVIEWS The Investment of the Funds of Social Insurance Institutions. (Studies and Reports—Social Insurance—No. 16.) [Pp. v+ 196. 5s. International Labour Office (League of Nations), Geneva, 1939.] ΤΗIS is an account of an interesting effort in ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 183-184
Memoirs I
183 OBITUARY REINHOLD PALMQVIST D R PALMQVIST who died on 10 February 1940 was born in Stockholm on 19 April 1885 and educated at the University in that city. He was the actuary at the Inspecting Board for Private Insurance from 1915 to 1917 and actuary ... read more >>
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- Hocking, W. S.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 411-412
The recent trend of mortality in England and Wales
411 THE RECENT TREND OF MORTALITY IN ENGLAND AND WALES BY W. S: HOCKING, M.B.E., F.I.A. of the Government Actuary’s Department IN continuation” of the tables given on pp. 99-100, the central death rates in age groups for males and females ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 333-339
Memoirs II
333 OBITUARY EDWARD ROBERT STRAKER M R STRAKER died at St Albans on 24 January 1941, at the age of 81. The last ten years of his life were overclouded by a serious illness which confined him to his room. He was thus unknown, except in name, to junior ... read more >>
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- Anderson, R D.
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 228-258
On the application of quantum mechanics to mortality tables
Quantum Mechanics is a portentous name; the alternative—Wave Mechanics—is almost as bad. The mathematics are formidable, the literature large and growing rapidly, and the subject-matter dealt with is the behaviour of physical things, such as ... read more >>
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- William Elderton; C Nicholl
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 133-141
Notes on foreign actuarial journals
133 NOTES ON FOREIGN ACTUARIAL JOURNALS BY SIR W. P. ELDERTON, C.B.E., F.I.A., F.F.A., PH.D. (Oslo), C. C. NICHOLL, O.B.E., B.A., F.I.A., F.F.A. AND H. L. SEAL, B.Sc, F.F.A. AMERICA Transactions of the Actuarial Society of America, Vol. XL, Part II R. D. ... read more >>
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- Journal of the Institute of Actuaries [JIA] (1943) 71: 448-459
Memoirs III
448 MEMOIRS WILLIAM PEYTON PHELPS W E record with the greatest regret the death on 14 March 1942, a few weeks before his 77th birthday, of W I L L I AM PEYTON,PHELPS, M.A., a Fellow and Past President of the Institute. He was unmarried but leaves a ... read more >>