Community

Discussion and Questions

If you have other ideas or questions, join the JuliaActuary Github Discussions. Or come say hello on the community Zulip or Slack #actuary channel. We welcome all actuarial and related disciplines!

Help mode

You can also access help text when using the packages in the REPL by activating help mode, e.g.:

julia> using MortalityTables

help?> survival

The help text describes survival for a rate vector or a parametric mortality law. For tables, pass table.ultimate or table.select[issue_age]. Fractional ages use UniformDeaths(), ConstantForce(), or Balducci():

julia> qs = UltimateMortality([0.1, 0.3, 0.6, 1.0]);

julia> survival(qs, 0, 1)
0.9

julia> survival(qs, 0, 0.5, UniformDeaths())
0.95

An age outside a table raises BoundsError. A reversed interval returns the reciprocal survival factor, which can exceed one; it is an accumulation factor, not a probability. See the MortalityTables documentation.

Pull Requests

JuliaActuary is open source; you are free to modify, use, or change your copy of the code - but if you make enhancements please consider opening a pull request (basic walkthrough here). Beginners are welcome and we can help with your first pull request!

Issues

If you find issues, please open an issue on the relevant package’s repository and we will try and address it as soon as possible.

Project Board

See the Good first Issues project board on Github for simple, self-contained ways to contribute such as adding small new features, improving the documentation, or writing up a tutorial on how to do something simple!

Creating Examples, Tutorials, or Blog Posts

This site is a basic Quarto website. New content can be added by creating a pull request with a new page in the posts folder. A blog post is distinguished from the other examples content by the simple virtue of having the blog category field in the topmatter of the .qmd file.