In the actuarial literature, it has become common practice to model future capital returns and mortality rates stochastically in order to capture market risk and forecasting risk. Although interest rates often should and mortality rates always have to be non-negative, many authors use stochastic...

The random coeffcients model is an extension of the linear regression model which allows for additional heterogeneity in the population by modeling the regression coeffcients as random variables. Given data from this model, the statistical challenge is to recover information about the joint...