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Robust Credibility1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2014

Alois Gisler  and
Peter Reinhard
Alois Gisler*
Affiliation:
“Winterthur”, Swiss Insurance Company Winterthur
Peter Reinhard*
Affiliation:
“Winterthur”, Swiss Insurance Company Winterthur
*
‘Winterthur’, Swiss Insurance Company, Box 357, CH-8401 Winterthur.
‘Winterthur’, Swiss Insurance Company, Box 357, CH-8401 Winterthur.
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Abstract

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Outlier observations caused by big claims or by an event producing a series of claims are a special problem in ratemaking and in tariff calculation. The authors believe that combining credibility and robust statistics is the right answer to this problem. The main idea is to robustify the individual claims experience by using a robust estimator Ti instead of the individual mean and to look at the credibility estimator based on the robust statistics {Ti: i = 1, 2, …} . Choosing a particular influence function leads to datatrimming with an observation-dependent trimming point.

Keywords

Robust statisticsstandard credibility modelsdata trimming
Type
Articles
Information
ASTIN Bulletin: The Journal of the IAA , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , May 1993 , pp. 117 - 143
Copyright
Copyright © International Actuarial Association 1993

Footnotes

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A first version of the paper was presented at the ASTIN Colloquium 1990 in Switzerland.

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