On the use of conditional specification models in claim count distributions: an application to bonus-malus system

In this paper a new methodology using the conditional specification technique introduced by Arnold et al. (1999) is used to obtain bonus-malus premiumns. A Poisson distribution for wich the parameter is a function of the classical structure parameter is used and a new class of prior distribution ari...

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Autores: Sarabia Alegría, José María|||0000-0002-9619-4721, Gómez Déniz, Emilio, Vázquez Polo, Francisco José
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2004
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)
Repositorio:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabria
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/4364
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10902/4364
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Conditional specification model
Generalized negative binomial distribution
Bonus-malus systems
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Sumario:In this paper a new methodology using the conditional specification technique introduced by Arnold et al. (1999) is used to obtain bonus-malus premiumns. A Poisson distribution for wich the parameter is a function of the classical structure parameter is used and a new class of prior distribution arises in a natural way. This model contains, a s a particular case, the classical compound Poisson model and is found to be much more robust than earlier ones. An example is given to illustrate our ideas.