Emmanuel is a professor of actuarial science and statistics and coordinates the actuarial science program in the Department of Mathematics at Southeast Missouri State University (SEMO) in Missouri, USA.
Education
Emmanuel graduated from University of Cape Coast in 2006 in Ghana with a Bachelors’ degree (First Class Honors) in statistics. He obtained a Master of Science degree in actuarial science in 2009 followed by a PhD in statistics with concentration in actuarial science in 2013, both from University of Calgary (U of C) in Calgary, Canada. His PhD thesis centered on Ultimate Ruin Probability in the Dependent Claim Sizes and Claim Occurrence Times Models. Emmanuel holds membership with numerous professional organizations including the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries in the United Kingdom, the Actuarial Society of Ghana (ASG), the American Statistical Association, the Statistical Society of Canada, and the Mathematical Association of America. At the ASG, he serves as the education committee member on Analytics. Currently, Emmanuel is a member of the International Actuarial Association Data Analytics Virtual Forum.
Employment
Emmanuel worked in various capacities with insurance companies in life insurance, personal and commercial lines insurance, research, investment, and statistics both in Ghana and Canada. Prior to coming to SEMO, he worked as an instructor in life contingencies and teaching /research assistant in statistics and actuarial science in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the U of C.
Research Interests
My research interest is mainly inspired by applications, especially those from the financial, insurance and health services industries. My research has been on actuarial risk and mortality modeling with their applications. Currently, my research interests are centered on the applications of modern statistical methods and data science techniques to high-dimensional messy and massive data sets.
Selected Publications
Thompson, E. and Talafha, A. M. (2020). Regularization-Based Bootstrap Ranking Model: Identifying Healthcare Indicators Among All Level Income Economies. Afr. Stat. 15 (3), 2431 - 2449.
Thompson, E. and Sofo, S. (2018). Predicting smoking behaviors among junior high school students in Ghana. International Journal of Public Health Science, 8 (1), 117 – 125.
Wunderlich, K. and Thompson, E. (2018). Estimating Health care costs among fragile and conflict affected states: An elastic net-risk measures approach. International Journal of Public Health Science, 7 (3), 175 – 185.
Thompson, E. and Talafha, A. M. (2017). Forecasting a composite indicator of economic activity in Ghana: A comparison of data science methods. Journal of Statistical and Econometric Methods, 6 (4), 19- 51.
Talafha, A. M, and Thompson, E. (2017). On valuing European option: VAR-COVAR approach. Journal of Finance and Investment Analysis, 6 (3), 1- 38.
Williams, F. and Thompson, E. (2017). Health Disparities in Breast Cancer Stage at Diagnosis: Importance, Race, Poverty, and Age. Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice, 10 (3), 34 - 45.
Thompson, E. and Ambagaspitiya R.S. (2016). Ruin probability for correlated Poisson claim count and Gamma (m) risk process. Far East Journal of Theoretical Statistics, 52 (4), 269 – 288.
Thompson, E. and Williams, F. (2016). Predictive models of health expenditure using regularization: Do low-income & lower middle-income economies share common predictors? International Journal of Health Research and Innovation, 6 (2), 13 – 21.
Obisesan, O., Thompson, E., Akinola, O., Obisesan, A., and Commodore-Mensah, Y. (2016). An examination of the association between ever-used non-cigarette tobacco and smokeless tobacco, and hypertension diagnosis: A pseudo-panel analysis of the 2012-2014 National Health Interview Survey. International Journal of Public Health Science, 5 (1), 60 – 69.
Williams, F. and Thompson, E. (2016). Disparity in breast cancer late stage at diagnosis in Missouri: Does rural versus urban residence matter? Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, 3 (2), 233 – 239.
Thompson, E., Mensah, G. E., and Butorac, A. (2016). Short-term interest rate model: Calibration of the vasicek process to Ghana’s treasury rate. Journal of Finance and Investment Analysis. 5 (1), 71-79
Sofo, S. and Thompson, E. (2015). Maternal mortality in Ghana: Impact of the Fee-Free Delivery Policy and the National Health Insurance Scheme, International Journal of Public Health Science, 4 (3), 232 – 237.
Thompson, E. and Sofo, S. (2015). Economic impact of maternal mortality in Africa: A panel data approach. Journal of Statistical and Econometric Methods, 4 (3), 65 – 78.
Thompson, E. (2015). Health care expenditure in Africa – An application of shrinkage methods. International Journal of Mathematics and Statistics Studies, 3 (3), 15 – 20.
Thompson, E. and Sofo, S. (2014). Maternal mortality in Ghana: An econometric analysis. Journal of Statistical and Econometric Methods, 3 (2), 115 – 124.
Thompson, E. and Ambagaspitiya, R. (2014). Stochastic valuation of segregated fund contracts in an emerging market. Journal of Finance and Investment Analysis, 3 (2), 7 – 22.
Watson, L. C., Gies, D., Thompson, E., and Thomas, B. (2012).To roll or not to roll: A randomized control trial evaluating the use of antiperspirant, skin reaction intensity, and the reported quality of life in women receiving external beam radiation for the treatment of stage 0, I, II breast cancer. International Journal of Radiation Oncology, Biology and Physics, 83 (1), 29 – 34.
