What's the difference between actuary and assessor?
Actuary
Definition:
(n.) A registrar or clerk; -- used originally in courts of civil law jurisdiction, but in Europe used for a clerk or registrar generally.
(n.) The computing official of an insurance company; one whose profession it is to calculate for insurance companies the risks and premiums for life, fire, and other insurances.
Example Sentences:
(1) The actuarial 5-year disease-free survival rates were 83% (group 1), 83% (group 2), and 100% (group 3).
(2) This activity scheme uses as its base, dose potency measured as TD50, the chronic dose rate that actuarially halves the adjusted percentage of tumor-free animals at the end of the study (Gold et al., Environ.
(3) The actuarial 4-year rate of continuous disease control above the clavicles was 78% for Stage II.
(4) T1 and T2 cases, with an actuarial survival of 44% at five years, had a significantly better prognosis than T3 cases (31%) and T4 cases (10%).
(5) Five-year actuarial survival rates were 67%, 60%, and 38%, respectively.
(6) A second device was implanted in 41 patients with residual flow, and 37 of these had complete occlusion, giving an overall latest follow-up occlusion rate of 77% and an actuarial complete occlusion rate for one or two devices of 94.8% (95% Cl 92.9 to 96.7) at 30 months after implantation of the first device.
(7) The five- and ten-year actuarial survival of all patients was 50% and 46%, respectively.
(8) The marked improvement during recent years in prognosis for patients with insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM), has also had actuarial consequences.
(9) Relapse following second and subsequent remission BMT was predicted by a score based on standard prognostic features or by the pace of the disease: patients with an interval of less than 2 years between diagnosis and first relapse having a 15% actuarial disease-free survival, compared with 81% for patients with an interval greater than 2 years (P less than 0.001).
(10) Thirteen (36%) of the 36 patients died before adequate antifungal therapy could be administered, while 13 survived long enough to receive 1,500 mg of amphotericin B; actuarial survival of the latter group from the date 1,500 mg of amphotericin B had been infused was 47% at 1 year.
(11) The 5-year actuarial survival for Stage IIA was 86% and the 5-year actuarial survival for Stage IIB was 46% (p = 0.06).
(12) Actuarial observed 2 yr. survival is 33% and the median survival is 15 months.
(13) The actuarial 5- and 10-year survival was 77 and 65%, respectively with 55 and 48% 5 and 10 year disease-free survival.
(14) The overall actuarial survival rate was 86.5% at 5 years and 78.0% at 10 years.
(15) The results indicate that half or more of the interstate differences in spending for this population group are due to actuarial and efficiency factors rather than deviations from equity potential.
(16) Utilizing these guidelines, a 1-year actuarial survival following each of these procedures of greater than 60% can be expected.
(17) Five-year actuarial survival rates were 86.6% for frank, 98.8% for microinvasive and 98.8% for in situ carcinomas.
(18) Patients with one or more of the above risk factors who received BMT have a disease-free survival of 61% with a median follow-up of 66 months (range 11 months to 10.6 years), and an actuarial relapse rate of 10%.
(19) The actuarial survival at 2 years after grafting of Blacks, Hispanics and Asians was compared with that of Caucasians transplanted between 1971 and 1985 for aplastic anaemia, acute non-lymphocytic leukaemia and acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
(20) Actuarial 5-year survival was 90% for pT1, 51% for pT2 and 34% for pT3, bladder treatment being unsuccessful in 6 cases (11%).
Assessor
Definition:
(v.) One appointed or elected to assist a judge or magistrate with his special knowledge of the subject to be decided; as legal assessors, nautical assessors.
(v.) One who sits by another, as next in dignity, or as an assistant and adviser; an associate in office.
(v.) One appointed to assess persons or property for the purpose of taxation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Based on our work on the EIA and assessors’ own reports on the 2010 REF pilot , assessment panels are able to account for factors such as the quality of evidence, context and situation in which the impact was occurring – and even the quality of the writing – to differentiate between, and grade, case studies.
(2) The two groups of actors in this new development--the risk assessors and the strain designers--need the same platform of understanding from the field of microbial ecology, and a number of specific areas which may now be approached by modern technology deserve particular attention.
(3) Over a 4 month period both groups were visited three times by an independent assessor who rated them on service provision and functional independence.
(4) We believe that ward-based assessors are integral to good nurse education.
(5) Comparison of these findings with the results yielded by the judgement of the same items by naive listeners indicated broad agreement between the two categories of assessors.
(6) A retrospective review of 600 obstetric case-notes, covering the years 1978 to 1984, was performed independently by two assessors.
(7) Seven hypnosis and 17 control patients were withdrawn as treatment failures, the difference between the two groups being statistically significant.As judged by analyses based on the daily "score" of wheezing recorded in patients' diaries, by the number of times bronchodilators were used, and by independent clinical assessors, both treatment groups showed some improvement Among men the assessments of wheezing score and use of bronchodilators showed similar improvement in the two treatment groups; among women, however, those treated by hypnosis showed improvement similar to that observed in the men, but those given breathing exercises made much less progress, the difference between the two treatment groups reaching statistical significance.
(8) The Department for Communities and Local Government has since said it has enough energy assessors to produce the packs and energy performance certificates (EPCs) so they will be rolled out to three-bedroom homes from September 10.
(9) Hence a modified version of the study is being continued to see whether yearly audit by regional assessors is a feasible and practical way of monitoring trends in perinatal mortality.
(10) Why didn't HMG (because it was the government who appointed his "expert assessors" for him) put at least one tabloid adviser at his side to guide deliberations?
(11) Assessor 1 considered that 20% and assessor 2 15%, of those studied could have been managed without admission.
(12) But he still faces a yearly battle: The hospital must prove its compliance annually to the county board of assessors.
(13) At the end of the test, the computer compiles a report for the assessor to approve; this report is sent to the jobcentre where an adviser makes a final decision on benefit eligibility.
(14) O’Sullivan mentioned his thoughts of suicide on his Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) form, and that should have prompted a call for further medical evidence, but his assessor did not ask him about it.
(15) Lea said that it was, in effect, assuming people were lying to assessors about their condition.
(16) We gained the experience, that this method allows no statement about the assessor's sensory ability at all, but merely fixes his order of precedence in a panel as to his ability to realize sensory differences in the scope of one special problem.
(17) The goal was to provide a rational basis for applying MCMV as a host resistance model for immunotoxicity testing and to provide risk assessors some guidance in relating suppression of NK cell activity to enhanced risk of disease.
(18) In the remaining 18 cases, the assessors did not agree on the need for admission.
(19) In 1966 he was assessor to Lord Mountbatten during his inquiry into prison security – but he harboured a sneaking regard for Ronnie Biggs, the great train robber who escaped from Wandsworth jail in 1965, saying that his flight "added a rare and welcome touch of humour to the history of crime".
(20) The trainer tells trainee assessors: "If it's more than I think 12% or 13%, you will be fed back 'your rate is too high.'"