Hierarchical insurance claims modeling

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 103, Issue 484, 2008, Pages 1457-1469

  Frees, Edward W ^a   Valdez, Emiliano A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

Copula; Insurance claim; Long tailed regression.

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952672260     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214508000000823     Document Type: Article

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