A Functional Approach to Approximations for the Individual Risk Model

ASTIN Bulletin

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 379-397

  Pitts, Susan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

compound distributions; Fr chet derivatives; stop loss premiums; Total claim amount distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011480481     PISSN: 05150361     EISSN: 17831350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S051503610001374X     Document Type: Article

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