Mixtures of tails in clustered automobile collision claims

Insurance: Mathematics and Economics

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 89-107

  Kalb, Guyonne R J ^a   Kofman, Paul ^a   Vorst, Ton C F ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

EM algorithm; Extreme value theory; Mixtures of distributions

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030187689     PISSN: 01676687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0167-6687(95)00029-1     Document Type: Article

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