Artikel

Log-normal or over-dispersed poisson?

Although both over-dispersed Poisson and log-normal chain-ladder models are popular in claim reserving, it is not obvious when to choose which model. Yet, the two models are obviously different. While the over-dispersed Poisson model imposes the variance to mean ratio to be common across the array, the log-normal model assumes the same for the standard deviation to mean ratio. Leveraging this insight, we propose a test that has the power to distinguish between the two models. The theory is asymptotic, but it does not build on a large size of the array and, instead, makes use of information accumulating within the cells. The test has a non-standard asymptotic distribution; however, saddle point approximations are available. We show in a simulation study that these approximations are accurate and that the test performs well in finite samples and has high power.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Risks ; ISSN: 2227-9091 ; Volume: 6 ; Year: 2018 ; Issue: 3 ; Pages: 1-37 ; Basel: MDPI

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
non-nested testing
encompassing
chain-ladder

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Harnau, Jonas
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
MDPI
(wo)
Basel
(wann)
2018

DOI
doi:10.3390/risks6030070
Handle
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  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Harnau, Jonas
  • MDPI

Entstanden

  • 2018

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