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Ronald Richman
@RichmanRonald
Avid actuary but prefers #rstats to Excel. Interested in the application of deep learning to actuarial issues.
Jan 13, 2021 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
@Sharpe_Actuary and I hosted the kickoff session of the Global Technical Incerto Reading Club on Monday. Thanks to the amazing work of Jake Billings (github.com/jake-billings) there is now a website with links to the recording and slides:

techincertoreadingclub.com

1/N @Sharpe_Actuary delivered a brilliant introduction to extreme value theory. Here is a snippet from the slides showing how the 99.5th quantile of a Generalized Pareto Distribution varies with the threshold chosen for the extreme values. 2/N