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Please, this is maybe a meta-statistics question but let me ask this. What would you tell a mathematician to answer the question:

"Mention few examples what kind of data analysis the insurance companies or banks do?" Something a la "They have the set of claims and compute the mean."... (obviously a stupid example).

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For insurance companies, you could read Wikipedia's article on actuarial science and Actuary. – onestop Mar 19 '12 at 13:00

closed as not a real question by Peter Ellis, whuber♦ Mar 24 '12 at 20:31

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