This paper considers a range of stochastic models which give the same reserve estimates as the chain-ladder technique. The relationship between the models described by Renshaw and Verrall (Renshaw, A.E., Verrall, R.J., 1998. British Actuarial Journal 4, 903–923) and Mack (Mack, T., 1993. ASTIN Bulletin 23, 213–225) is explored in more detail than previously. Several new models are suggested and...

Previous studies have shown that a change in an existing object is not as effective in capturing attention as the appearance of a new object. This view was recently challenged by Lu and Zhou (Psychonomic Bulletin and Review 12:567-572, 2005), who found strong capture effects for an object changing its color. We suspected that this finding critically depends on a procedural particularity in Lu a...

XSL Version: xslver | JobID: JobID | Title: journal-title | Copyright Year 2 | Volume 87 | | Issue issue | pub-date pub-date Bull World Health Organ 2015;93:817 | doi: http://dx.doi.org/12.2471/BLT.15.001215 Environmental impacts of tobacco Thomas E Novotny et al. (877–880) highlight the environmental impacts of tobacco production and use. Rapid tests for malaria Theodoor Visser et al. (862–866...

In this paper we investigate the dependence in Fréchet spaces containing mutually exclusive risks. It is shown that, under some reasonable assumptions, the safest dependence structure, in the sense of the minimal stop-loss premiums for the aggregate claims involved, is obtained with the Fréchet lower bound and precisely corresponds to the mutually exclusive risks of the Fréchet space. In that r...