Feller-Pareto and Related Distributions: Numerical Implementation and Actuarial Applications

Actuaries model insurance claim amounts using heavy tailed probability distributions. They routinely need to evaluate quantities related to these distributions such as quantiles in the far right tail, moments or limited moments. Furthermore, actuaries often resort to simulation to solve otherwise un...

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Main Authors: Christophe Dutang, Vincent Goulet, Nicholas Langevin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Foundation for Open Access Statistics 2022-07-01
Series:Journal of Statistical Software
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Online Access:https://www.jstatsoft.org/index.php/jss/article/view/4129