2009- 2010 Session

Attachments are in pdf format.

20th October – Andrew McGuinness (EMB Consulting) on [attachment:NOT21a.pdf 'Monte Carlo methods in General Insurance'.] Some of the models mentioned in the talk can be implemented in R. In particular details in R of the GLM fitted to the Mack model (section 3.5 in the pdf file) are given [http://toolkit.pbworks.com/R-Examples-For-Actuaries here.]

19th November – Anne Campbell (Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust and former MP for Cambridge) on [attachment:NOT21b.pdf 'Would statistics help your MP?']

2010

9th February – Tony Sabin (Amgen) on [attachment:NOT211.pdf 'Predicting the probability of developing a successful cancer therapy'.] Powerpoint slides of Tony's talk are [attachment:cancer.ppt here.]

2nd March – Bill Janeway (Warburg Pincus & Cambridge University) on [attachment:NOT212.pdf 'Six impossible things before breakfast...revisited:Lessons from the crisis'.] Powerpoint slides of Bill's talk are [attachment:economy.ppt here.]

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