Representative Sample
Sample in which the relative sizes of the subpopulation samples are selected in such a manner as to be equal to the relative sizes of the subpopulations. For example, when measuring the viewing audience of a particular television show, the audience is stratified into several subpopulations: income groups, age groups, vocational groups, and so on. Then random samples are drawn from the various strata in proportion to the relative sizes of the REPLACEMENT, RECONSTRUCTION, AND REPRODUCTION COST.
Popular Insurance Terms
Combination of whole life and level term that provides income to a beneficiary for a selected period of time (e.g., 20 years) if an insured dies during that period. At the end of the ...
Coverage for numerous perils such as that found in the broad form personal theft insurance. ...
Chart published in 1868 by Sheppard Homans, an actuary with the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York, based on insured lives from 1843 to 1858. Historically, it was widely used for ...
Clause in legal contracts that excuses a given party to the contract from liability for unintentional negligent acts and/or omissions. ...
Process of forming a large group of homogeneous lives that in order to allow the law of large numbers to operate, thereby projecting a probable rate of mortality or morbidity whose ...
Unsecured bond. The only protection for the lender is the credit and reputation of the borrower. The method of evaluating the quality of debentures is to analyze the earning power, overall ...
Designation of a policy's death benefit or its cash surrender value to a creditor as security for a loan. If the loan is not repaid, the creditor receives the policy proceeds up to the ...
Payments from an employee's employee benefit insurance plan that can be rolled over to an individual retirement account (IRA) or to another plan maintained by the employer that accepts ...
Layering of a bond portfolio where bonds are sold whose yield to maturity are low and bonds are bought whose yield to maturity are high in order that reserve requirements are met for future ...
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