Bayesian analysis of compound loss distributions

DOI10.1016/S0304-4076(97)00010-9zbMath0873.62117MaRDI QIDQ1362061

Jeffrey S. Pai

Publication date: 4 November 1997

Published in: Journal of Econometrics (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

model selectionforecastingmodel uncertaintyaggregate claim amountreinsuranceposterior probabilityMCMCpredictive distributionposterior probabilitiescollective losscompound loss distributioninsurance lossesreinsurance treatiessampling based methods

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Applications of statistics to actuarial sciences and financial mathematics (62P05) Bayesian inference (62F15)

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