Skew mixture models for loss distributions: a Bayesian approach. (English) Zbl 1285.62027
Summary: The derivation of loss distribution from insurance data is a very interesting research topic but at the same time not an easy task. To find an analytic solution to the loss distribution may be misleading although this approach is frequently adopted in the actuarial literature. Moreover, it is well recognized that the loss distribution is strongly skewed with heavy tails and presents small, medium and large size claims which hardly can be fitted by a single analytic and parametric distribution. Here we propose a finite mixture of skew normal distributions that provides a better characterization of insurance data. We adopt a Bayesian approach to estimate the model, providing the likelihood and the priors for the all unknown parameters; we implement an adaptive Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm to approximate the posterior distribution. We apply our approach to a well known Danish fire loss data and relevant risk measures, such as value-at-risk and expected shortfall probability, are evaluated as well.
MSC:
| 62F15 | Bayesian inference |
| 60E05 | Probability distributions: general theory |
| 62H30 | Classification and discrimination; cluster analysis (statistical aspects) |
| 91B30 | Risk theory, insurance (MSC2010) |
| 62P05 | Applications of statistics to actuarial sciences and financial mathematics |
Keywords:
Markov chain Monte Carlo; Bayesian analysis; mixture model; skew-normal distributions; loss distribution; Danish dataReferences:
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