Skip to Navigation Skip to Main Content Skip to Footer
Vertical blue bar

RESOURCES

The Slope Blog

Discover key insights and thought leadership on the latest trends of industry and technology.

Downward facing blue arrow

Precision vs. Accuracy

We promised a series of articles discussing actuarial model trade-offs, and dang it, we’re going to keep our word. Our first trade-off article was about Modeling Efficiency versus Detail, and you can read that one here. Today we’re discussing another trade-off that many actuaries contend with on a daily basis: how precise do you need […]

Model Detail vs. Run Efficiency

As any actuary who’s been in modeling for any time knows, there are multiple trade-offs in creating your model. We’ll be presenting some of those tradeoffs over a series of articles. This is the first, discussing the inevitable compromise between model detail and run efficiency. AN UNLIKELY CASE STUDY There once was an insurance company […]