In non-life insurance practice, actuaries are often faced with the challenge of predicting the number of claims and claim amounts to be incurred at any given time, which serve to implement fair pricing and reserves given the nature of the risk. This paper extends Jewell's credible distribution...

A study that would otherwise be eligible is commonly excluded from a meta-analysis when the standard error of its treatment-effect estimator, or the estimate of the variance of the outcomes, is not reported and cannot be recovered from the available information. This is wasteful when the...

A fundamental task in the analysis of data sets with many variables is screening for associations. This can be cast as a multiple testing task, where the objective is achieving high detection power while controlling type I error. We consider m hypothesis tests represented by pairs...