Summarizing insurance scores using a gini index

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 106, Issue 495, 2011, Pages 1085-1098

  Frees, Edward W ^a   Meyers, Glenn ^b   David Cummings, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b ISO Innovative Analytics ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Credit score; Lorenz curve; Predictive modeling; U statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054681007     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/jasa.2011.tm10506     Document Type: Article

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