An Improved Error Bound for the Compound Poisson Approximation of a Nearly Homogeneous Portfolio

R. Michel

doi:10.2143/AST.17.2.2014971

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For the case of a portfolio with identical claim amount distributions, Gerber's error bound for the compound Poisson approximation is improved (in the case λ ⩾ 1). The result can also be applied to more general portfolios by partitioning them into homogeneous subportfolios.

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