Bayesian hypothesis testing for the distribution of insurance claim counts using the Gibbs sampler

Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 201-214

  Katsis, Athanassios ^a   Ntzoufras, Ioannis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PELOPONNESE   (Greece)

^b ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bayesian point of view; Gibbs sampling; hypothesis tests; Markov Chain Monte Carlo; reversible jump; WINBUGS

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; INSURANCE; MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; SAMPLING;

BAYESIAN; GIBBS SAMPLING; HYPOTHESIS TESTS; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE-CARLO; REVERSIBLE JUMP; WINBUGS;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

EID: 24644436349     PISSN: 14727978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/jcm-2005-5304     Document Type: Article

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