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Time series models for insurance claims

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2012

A. C. Harvey  and
C. Fernandes
A. C. Harvey
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics, London School of Economics and Political Science
C. Fernandes
Affiliation:
Department of Statistics, London School of Economics and Political Science
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Abstract

The distribution of insurance claims in a given time period is usually regarded as a random sum. This paper sets up a time series model for the value of the claims and combines it with a model for the number of claims. Thus past observations can be used to make predictions of future values of the random sum, and the overall model ensures that they are discounted appropriately. It is shown that explanatory variables can be introduced into the model, and how it can be extended to handle several groups. The general approach is based on the recently developed structural time series methodology.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Institute of Actuaries , Volume 116 , Issue 3 , December 1989 , pp. 513 - 528
Copyright
Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1989

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