Centro de Documentacion de Fundación MAPFRE - Phase-type distributions for claim severity regression modeling

Notes: Sumario: This paper addresses the task of modeling severity losses using segmentation when the data distribution does not fall into the usual regression frameworks. This situation is not uncommon in lines of business such as third-party liability insurance, where heavy-tails and multimodality often hamper a direct statistical analysis. We propose to use regression models based on phase-type distributions, regressing on their underlying inhomogeneous Markov intensity and using an extension of the expectationmaximization algorithm. These models are interpretable and tractable in terms of multistate processes and generalize the proportional hazards specification when the dimension of the state space is larger than 1. We show that the combination of matrix parameters, inhomogeneity transforms, and covariate information provides flexible regression models that effectively capture the entire distribution of loss severities.

Related records: En: Astin bulletin. - Belgium : ASTIN and AFIR Sections of the International Actuarial Association = ISSN 0515-0361. - 09/05/2022 Volumen 52 Número 2 - mayo 2022 , p. 417 - 448Materia / lugar / evento: Cálculo actuarial Matemática del seguro Regresión no lineal Other categories: 6

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