actuarial shareware stephen mildenhall
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Actuarial Shareware
Stephen Mildenhall
http://www.mynl.com
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ProgramDemosStatus of packageVolunteers
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Demos FFTs vs shifted lognormals to compute
aggregate distributions Loss development, confidence intervals Regression tools Histograms, 2D histograms Task-Project Manager Philosophy Myers-Read demo Cool stuff
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Status of Package GREAT home page
http://www.mynl.com/GREAT/home.shtml Contains latest distribution of tools
Installs to c:\program files\GREAT Registers DLLs Can be uninstalled using Control Panel, Add/Remove
Programs NT4.0 (SP4), 2000 or XP required Excel 97 or later required for Add-In
User must manually add the add-in c:\program files\great\greatools400.xla
Some laptops require slightly different load
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Status of PackageDocumentation
http://www.mynl.com/GREAT/help.shtml Currently more aimed at developers than
users Modules, functions and subs, menu
commands Automatically generated from source code
Help in toolkit links to internet site
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Status of Package Bugs: yes Tested: not entirely
Curse of proliferating options Development
Regression tools not completed Extend to include Zehnwirth-like triangle analysis tools
Visualization component being re-written SADCo, FFT tools largely complete
More distributions Testing Memory leak Iman-Conover, multivariate sample section needs re-writing
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Status of PackageTools
VBA Add-in 14,000 lines of code
C++ VISCo VTK SADCo FFTW, Blitz++ LinAlg2 Lapack (Fortran) Variant
HTML, XML, CSS
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VolunteersTesters Grade ATesters Grade BContributorsProselytizers and Users
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VolunteersTesters Grade A
Look at code, check the math, generate examples, help write documentation
Testers Grade B Does it run on your machine?
Looking for a range of machine types and OSs Download, install, run some samples, report
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VolunteersContributors
Pure Excel (add-in code), COM-objects Nothing proprietary! Methods not
parametersProselytizers and Users
All pointless unless people start using tools Goal
Actuaries regard an aggregate distribution as just another parametric distribution