by Ian Deters | Mar 1, 2026 | Talks and Essays
In this episode of Full Metal Analysis, a case is made for the asymptotic normality of the total claim amount for an insurance company. This will involve giving a brief history of the Central Limit Theorem, explaining how it looks in practice, discussing...
by Ian Deters | Jan 16, 2026 | Talks and Essays
The Explicable Precision series comes to an end by introducing the formulae, geometry, and application of piecewise linear functions. It will be shown that such functions rival the precision of xgboost and random forest models while remaining...
by Ian Deters | Aug 31, 2025 | Talks and Essays
To get a sense of what would occur in banking with respect to reserve ratios in an unregulated environment, I created simulations and later mathematics to investigate this. Bob Murphy, one of the current belligerents in the discussion, asked me to come on his show and...
by Ian Deters | Aug 21, 2025 | Talks and Essays
This is the sixth video in the Explicable Precision series. The purpose of this video is to discuss how to think about distributional assumptions and where such assumptions have material...
by Ian Deters | Jul 19, 2025 | Talks and Essays
This is the fifth video in the Explicable Precision series. The purpose of this video is to discuss a way to group records in such a fashion that the average phenomenon in the group is...
by Ian Deters | Jun 21, 2025 | Talks and Essays
This is the fourth video in the Explicable Precision series. The purpose of this video is to illustrate the implementation of ideas concerning the probability integral transform and missing data from previous...
