This paper considers the impact that plan design might have on annuitization rates across different plans. The key finding of this study is that differences in DB plan rules or features result in very different annuitization rates in DB plans. In fact, the results show that the rate of...

The most prevalent spatial data setting is, arguably, that of so-called geostatistical data, data that arise as random variables observed at fixed spatial locations. Collection of such data in space and in time has grown enormously in the past two decades. With it has grown a substantial array...

With increasing accessibility to geographic information systems (GIS) software, statisticians and data analysts routinely encounter scientific data sets with geocoded locations. This has generated considerable interest in statistical modeling for location-referenced spatial data. In public...