Tables And Formulae For The Computation Of Life Contingencies

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1849 edition. Excerpt: ... of lives, (x) and (y), -1 _+l.jl+l++2.y+2++3.y+3+ or el.y=iCt., )--P(x.)2"r0t.y)3T 189. And in like manner we should find for the curtate mean duration of three lives, (a?), (y), and (z), 1 _j+l.y+lx+l "r+2.y+2.t+2" e.y.-/ Vy.s or el.y.=i?Cx.y.)+iGr.yx)2+; and so on, for a combination consisting of any number of lives whatsoever. By the aid of these expressions the curtate mean duration of any single life, or any combination of joint lives, may be determined. But they are unsuited to our present purpose, which is to show how, by a continuous process, a table may be formed of the curtate mean duration of a single life at each age, or of every combination of joint lives in which the differences of the ages of the lives composing it are the same. 140. By the hypothesis on which we now proceed, the lx who attain age x are immediately thereafter reduced by death to lx+l, which number attain the age x+1. Each has then a curtate mean duration of e1x+, and they consequently have amongst them a total duration of /r+1e1.+ 1, which, therefore, is the quantity of existence due to the l individuals in respect of all the years after the first. And the quantity in respect of the first year being lx+l, (137, ) we have for the whole quantity of existence to be enjoyed by the lx individuals from and after aSe x '+! +r+leI+l or lx+1O-+elx+l) Hence, dividing by /x, we have finally for the share of each, 141. In a similar manner we should deduce for a combination of two lives, (x) and (y), and for a combination of three lives (a?), (y), and (2), e i.y.=: i(.y.)U + e x+Ly+l.T+l) 142. By these formulae it is obvious that, if the curtate mean duration at any age, whether of a single life, or of a combination of any number of...

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Halley's Comet has been prominently displayed in many newspapers during the last few months. For the first time in 76 years it appeared this winter, the nocturnal sky. This is an appropriate occasion to clearly visible against point out the fact that Sir Edmund Halley also constructed the world's first life table in 1693, thus creating the scientific foundation of life insurance. Halley's life table and its successors were viewed as deterministic laws, i. e. the number of deaths in any given group and year was considered to be a well defined number that could be calculated by means of a life table. However, in reality this number is random. Thus any mathematical treatment of life insurance will have to rely more and more on probability theory. By sponsoring this monograph the Swiss Association of Actuaries wishes to support the "modern" probabilistic view of life contingencies. We are fortu nate that Professor Gerber, an internationally renowned expert, has assumed the task of writing the monograph. We thank the Springer-Verlag and hope that this monograph will be the first in a successful series of actuarial texts. Zurich, March 1986 Hans Biihlmann President Swiss Association of Actuaries Preface Two major developments have influenced the environment of actuarial math ematics. One is the arrival of powerful and affordable computers; the once important problem of numerical calculation has become almost trivial in many instances.