Nondestructive Characterization of Materials XI Proceedings of the 1
The papers published in these proceedings represent the latest developments in Nondestructive Characterization of Materials and were presented at the Eleventh International Symposium on Nondestructive Characterization of Materials held in June 24-28, 2002
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THE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO SERIES IN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE A SERIES OF BOOKS IN PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, METHODOLOGY, EPISTEMOLOGY, LOGIC, HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND RELATED FIELDS
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VOLUME 39
ADVANCES IN THE STATISTICAL SCIENCES Festschrift in Honor of Professor V. M Joshi's 70th Birthday VOLUME VI
ACTUARIAL SCIENCE Edited by
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents of the Other Volumes of the Joshi Festschrift.
vii
Preface
xiii
Introduction to Volume VI
xv
JAMES C. HICKMAN Connections Between Graduation and Forecasting
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JAMES D. BROFFITT Isotonic Bayesian Graduation with an Additive Prior
19
ESTHER PORTNOY Bootstrapping a Graduation
41
HANS U. GERBER Actuarial Applications of Utility Functions
53
N. U. PRABHU
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