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WSC
2008
13 years 10 months ago
Fast simulation of equity-linked life insurance contracts with a surrender option
In this paper, we consider equity-linked life insurance contracts that give their holder the possibility to surrender their policy before maturity. Such contracts can be valued us...
Carole Bernard, Christiane Lemieux
CSDA
2010
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13 years 8 months ago
Bayesian density estimation and model selection using nonparametric hierarchical mixtures
We consider mixtures of parametric densities on the positive reals with a normalized generalized gamma process (Brix, 1999) as mixing measure. This class of mixtures encompasses t...
Raffaele Argiento, Alessandra Guglielmi, Antonio P...
CSDA
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Model-based clustering for longitudinal data
A model-based clustering method is proposed for clustering individuals on the basis of measurements taken over time. Data variability is taken into account through non-linear hier...
Rolando De la Cruz-Mesía, Fernando A. Quint...
CVIU
2007
154views more  CVIU 2007»
13 years 7 months ago
Bayesian stereo matching
A Bayesian framework is proposed for stereo vision where solutions to both the model parameters and the disparity map are posed in terms of predictions of latent variables, given ...
Li Cheng, Terry Caelli
CP
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Computing the Density of States of Boolean Formulas
Abstract. In this paper we consider the problem of computing the density of states of a Boolean formula in CNF, a generalization of both MAX-SAT and model counting. Given a Boolean...
Stefano Ermon, Carla P. Gomes, Bart Selman