Credibility Theory for Variance Premium Principle

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In this paper, the authors introduce a credibility approach to estimate a linear combination of hypothetical mean and process variance by minimizing the expected quadratic loss function. The estimator they introduced consists of the linear form of observations, their quadratic terms and some quantities containing population information. The authors compare a spin-off result with the classical model and the \(q\)-credibility model. They also provide nonparametric estimators of structural quantities and numerical results to illustrate the performance of the estimators. They use a real insurance dataset to illustrate a data-driven procedure for determining the safety loading. In Section 2 of the paper, the authors review some results in the classical credibility model and the \(q\)-credibility model. Then they derive a credibility estimator for the variance premium principle by minimizing the expected quadratic loss function. They analyse some properties of the mean squared errors of the proposed estimator. The main result of the analysis is presented in Theorem 1. Numerical examples illustrating the performance of the estimator are provided based on discrete and continuous distributions with both light-tailed and heavy-tailed distributions. A nonparametric study for the structural parameters is provided in Section 3. Both simulation data and real insurance data are used for the illustrations. The authors also introduce a data-dependent method to determine the number of groups of risk profiles. The main theoretical results for the nonparametric estimators are presented in Proposition 3, Proposition 4, and Proposition 5. The final section (Section 4) gives the conclusion.











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