Modeling Frequency and Severity of Claims with the Zero-Inflated Generalized Cluster-Weighted Models

2018/12/31 by Pocuca, Nikola, Jevtic, Petar, McNicholas, Paul D. +1
#Applications (stat.AP) #FOS: Computer and information sciences

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1812.11829

Abstract

In this paper, we propose two important extensions to cluster-weighted models (CWMs). First, we extend CWMs to have generalized cluster-weighted models (GCWMs) by allowing modeling of non-Gaussian distribution of the continuous covariates, as they frequently occur in insurance practice. Secondly, we introduce a zero-inflated extension of GCWM (ZI-GCWM) for modeling insurance claims data with excess zeros coming from heterogenous sources. Additionally, we give two expectation-optimization (EM) algorithms for parameter estimation given the proposed models. An appropriate simulation study shows that, for various settings and in contrast to the existing mixture-based approaches, both extended models perform well. Finally, a real data set based on French auto-mobile policies is used to illustrate the application of the proposed extensions.

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