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Reinsurance : actuarial and statistical aspects / Hansjorg Albrecher, Jan Beirlant and Jozef L. Teugels.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Wiley series in probability and statisticsPublication details: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, ©2017.Description: xi, 252 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmISBN:
  • 9780470772683
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: ReinsuranceDDC classification:
  • 368.0122 23 Al341
Contents:
1. Introduction -- 2. Reinsurance forms and their properties -- 3. Models for claim sizes -- 4. Statistics for claim sizes -- 5. Models for claim counts -- 6. Total claim amount -- 7. Reinsurance pricing -- 8. Choice of reinsurance -- 9. Simulation -- 10. Further topics.
Summary: Reinsurance: Actuarial and Statistical Aspects provides a survey of both the academic literature in the field as well as challenges appearing in reinsurance practice and puts the two in perspective. The book is written for researchers with an interest in reinsurance problems, for graduate students with a basic knowledge of probability and statistics as well as for reinsurance practitioners. The focus of the book is on modelling together with the statistical challenges that go along with it. The discussed statistical approaches are illustrated alongside six case studies of insurance loss data sets, ranging from MTPL over fire to storm and flood loss data. Some of the presented material also contains new results that have not yet been published in the research literature. An extensive bibliography provides readers with links for further study.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction --
2. Reinsurance forms and their properties --
3. Models for claim sizes --
4. Statistics for claim sizes --
5. Models for claim counts --
6. Total claim amount --
7. Reinsurance pricing --
8. Choice of reinsurance --
9. Simulation --
10. Further topics.

Reinsurance: Actuarial and Statistical Aspects provides a survey of both the academic literature in the field as well as challenges appearing in reinsurance practice and puts the two in perspective. The book is written for researchers with an interest in reinsurance problems, for graduate students with a basic knowledge of probability and statistics as well as for reinsurance practitioners. The focus of the book is on modelling together with the statistical challenges that go along with it. The discussed statistical approaches are illustrated alongside six case studies of insurance loss data sets, ranging from MTPL over fire to storm and flood loss data. Some of the presented material also contains new results that have not yet been published in the research literature. An extensive bibliography provides readers with links for further study.

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