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Generalized Linear Models for Insurance Data
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Contents
Preface
1 Insurance data
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Types of variables
1.3 Data transformations
1.4 Data exploration
1.5 Grouping and runoff triangles
1.6 Assessing distributions
1.7 Data issues and biases
1.8 Data sets used
1.9 Outline of rest of book
2 Response distributions
2.1 Discrete and continuous random variables
2.2 Bernoulli
2.3 Binomial
2.4 Poisson
2.5 Negative binomial
2.6 Normal
2.7 Chi-square and gamma
2.8 Inverse Gaussian
2.9 Overdispersion
Exercises
3 Exponential family responses and estimation
3.1 Exponential family
3.2 The variance function
3.3 Proof of the mean and variance expressions
3.4 Standard distributions in the exponential family form
3.5 Fitting probability functions to data
Exercises
4 Linear modeling
4.1 History and terminology of linear modeling
4.2 What does “linear” in linear model mean?
4.3 Simple linear modeling
4.4 Multiple linear modeling
4.5 The classical linear model
4.6 Least squares properties under the classical linear model
4.7 Weighted least squares
4.8 Grouped and ungrouped data
4.9 Transformations to normality and linearity
4.10 Categorical explanatory variables
4.11 Polynomial regression
4.12 Banding continuous explanatory variables
4.13 Interaction
4.14 Collinearity
4.15 Hypothesis testing
4.16 Checks using the residuals
4.17 Checking explanatory variable specifications
4.18 Outliers
4.19 Model selection
5 Generalized linear models
5.1 The generalized linear model
5.2 Steps in generalized linear modeling
5.3 Links and canonical links
5.4 Offsets
5.5 Maximum likelihood estimation
5.6 Confidence intervals and prediction
5.7 Assessing fits and the deviance
5.8 Testing the significance of explanatory variables
5.9 Residuals
5.10 Further diagnostic tools
5.11 Model selection
Exercises
6 Models for count data
6.1 Poisson regression
6.2 Poisson overdispersion and negative binomial regression
6.3 Quasi-likelihood
6.4 Counts and frequencies
Exercises
7 Categorical responses
7.1 Binary responses
7.2 Logistic regression
7.3 Application of logistic regression to vehicle insurance
7.4 Correcting for exposure
7.5 Grouped binary data
7.6 Goodness of fit for logistic regression
7.7 Categorical responses with more than two categories
7.8 Ordinal responses
7.9 Nominal responses
Exercises
8 Continuous responses
8.1 Gamma regression
8.2 Inverse Gaussian regression
8.3 Tweedie regression
Exercises
9 Correlated data
9.1 Random effects
9.2 Specification of within-cluster correlation
9.3 Generalized estimating equations
Exercise
10 Extensions to the generalized linear model
10.1 Generalized additive models
10.2 Double generalized linear models
10.3 Generalized additive models for location, scale and shape
10.4 Zero-adjusted inverse Gaussian regression
10.5 A mean and dispersion model for total claim size
Exercises
Appendix 1: Computer code and output
A1.1 Poisson regression
A1.2 Negative binomial regression
A1.3 Quasi-likelihood regression
A1.4 Logistic regression
A1.5 Ordinal regression
A1.6 Nominal regression
A1.7 Gamma regression
A1.8 Inverse Gaussian regression
A1.9 Logistic regression GLMM
A1.10 Logistic regression GEE
A1.11 Logistic regression GAM
A1.12 GAMLSS
A1.13 Zero-adjusted inverse Gaussian regression
Bibliography
Index