To build adequate predictive models, a substantial amount of data is desirable. However, when expanding to new or unexplored territories, this required level of information is rarely always available. To build such models, actuaries often have to: procure data from local providers, use limited...

Deception and media manipulation have always been an integral part of wartime propaganda. But never before has it been so easy to create high-quality fabrications of images as well as sound and video recordings. The tendency to react emotionally to these media opens up a whole new possibility...

Täuschung und Medienmanipulation sind seit jeher fester Bestandteil der Kriegskommunikation. Nie zuvor aber war es derart einfach, qualitativ hochwertige Fäl­schungen von Ton-, Bild- und Videoaufzeichnungen zu erstellen. Die menschliche Neigung, emotional auf diese Medien zu reagieren,...

Variations of dedicated process conditions (such as workpiece and tool properties) yield different process state evolutions, which are reflected by different time series of the observable quantities (process curves). A novel method is presented, which firstly allows to extract the statistical...

In the nearly thirty years since Hans Buhlmann (Buhlmann (1987)) set out the notion of the Actuary of the Third Kind, the connection between Actuarial Science (AS) and Mathematical Finance (MF) has been continually reinforced. As siblings in the family of Risk Management techniques,...

Der Beitrag schildert die Effekte von Antwortausfällen bei einzelnen Fragen ("item non-response") auf die Ergebnisse von multivariaten statistischen Analysen. Dabei wird das Verfahren der "Data Augmentation" angewendet, um die fehlenden Daten zu ersetzen (Schafer 1997). Anhand von Schätzungen...

This paper provides a structural empirical analysis of Dutch auctions of houseplants at the flower auction in Aalsmeer, the Netherlands. The data set is unique for Dutch auctions in the sense that it includes observations of all losing bids in an interval adjacent to the winning bid. The size of...