Heavy-tailed longitudinal data modeling using copulas

Insurance: Mathematics and Economics

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 817-830

  Sun, Jiafeng ^a   Frees, Edward W ^a   Rosenberg, Marjorie A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

C200; Healthcare costs; I110; Predictive modeling; primary; secondary

Indexed keywords

EID: 40949093142     PISSN: 01676687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.insmatheco.2007.09.009     Document Type: Article

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