On the computation of aggregate claims distributions: Some new approximations

Insurance: Mathematics and Economics

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 215-230

  Chaubey, Yogendra P ^a   Garrido, José ^a   Trudeau, Sonia ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Approximations to F (x , t); Exact value; Inverse Gaussian distribution; Numerical calculations

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032585467     PISSN: 01676687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-6687(98)00029-8     Document Type: Article

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