Moment-based density and risk estimation from grouped summary statistics
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Publication:123132
DOI10.48550/ARXIV.2107.03883arXiv2107.03883MaRDI QIDQ123132
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Publication date: 8 July 2021
Abstract: Data on a continuous variable are often summarized by means of histograms or displayed in tabular format: the range of data is partitioned into consecutive interval classes and the number of observations falling within each class is provided to the analyst. Computations can then be carried in a nonparametric way by assuming a uniform distribution of the variable within each partitioning class, by concentrating all the observed values in the center, or by spreading them to the extremities. Smoothing methods can also be applied to estimate the underlying density or a parametric model can be fitted to these grouped data. For insurance loss data, some additional information is often provided about the observed values contained in each class, typically class-specific sample moments such as the mean, the variance or even the skewness and the kurtosis. The question is then how to include this additional information in the estimation procedure. The present paper proposes a method for performing density and quantile estimation based on such augmented information with an illustration on car insurance data.
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