广义线性模型在汽车保险定价的应用

对非寿险产品分类费率的厘定通常采用单项分析法、最小偏差法和多元线性回归等方法。虽然这些方法在非寿险产品定价中仍然占有一度之地,但由于保险数据的特殊性,它们的缺陷越来越受到人们的重视。本文简要分析了这些传统定价方法存在的缺陷,介绍了非寿险精算中典型的广义线性模型,并通过汽车第三者责任保险的损失数据说明了广义线性模型在非寿险产品定价中的具体应用,以及应用广义线性模型时应该注意的几个问题。     

混合效应模型及其在非寿险费率厘定中的应用

在非寿险分类费率厘定中,广义线性模型的应用十分普遍,但当某些费率因子的水平数很多时(本文称之为多水平因子),广义线性模型的估计结果将不可靠。解决此类问题的一种方法是把多水平费率因子作为随机效应处理。将多水平费率因子作为随机效应处理可以采取下述三种方法:(1)分别用广义线性模型和信度模型估计普通费率因子和多水平因子,通过广义线性模型与Buhlmann-Straub信度模型的迭代应用预测索赔频率和索赔强度;(2)应用广义线性混合模型分别预测索赔频率和索赔强度;(3)直接对经验纯保费数据建立Tweedie混合效应模型。本文把上述模型应用于中国车损险实际数据的研究结果表明,这三种方法比较接近,但从总体上看,广义线性混合模型的估计结果更加可取。     

市场约束条件下的非寿险费率厘定

在非寿险费率厘定中,经常遇到的一个实际问题是某些风险类别的费率不能过高或不能过低。在这种约束条件下,传统的广义线性模型将不能直接用于费率厘定。本文给出了一种在一般线性约束条件下,如何应用迭代算法对常用的广义线性模型进行调整,从而得到满足特定约束条件的费率厘定结果。本文的实证研究结果表明,该方法具有灵活性和现实可行性,能够解决非寿险费率厘定中常见的市场约束问题。     

非寿险分类费率模型及其参数估计

在非寿险分类费率厘定中,存在各种模型可供选择,如加法模型、乘法模型、混合模型和广义线性模型等,而在这些模型的参数估计中,还存在各种可供选择的估计方法,如最小二乘法、极大似然法、最小x2法、直接法和边际总和法等。这些模型和参数估计方法散见于各种精算学文献中,本文对这些模型和参数估计方法进行了系统的比较和分析,并揭示了它们之间存在的一些等价关系。     

Tweedie类分布下广义线性联合均值与散度混合专家回归模型

Tweedie类分布在财产保险中常常用来对索赔额进行量化,而混合专家回归模型在统计和机器学习方面被广泛地研究,并用来对异质总体数据进行分类、聚类及回归分析.本文基于Tweedie类分布提出广义线性联合均值与散度混合专家回归模型,从而为非寿险费率厘定精算技术的发展提供参考思路.接着,利用EM算法给出该模型的极大似然估计,进而通过随机模拟实验验证了所提出方法的有效性.最后,本文结合空气质量指标(AQI)数据验证了该模型和方法具有实用性和可行性.     

非寿险业务未决赔款准备金的两阶段广义线性模型估计

本文以非寿险业务未决赔款准备金估计的确定性方法-PPCI法的思想为基础,分两阶段建立广义线性模型,分别对索赔次数和已发生每案赔付额进行估计,进而得到未决赔款准备金的估计值,并对模型的预测误差进行估计。文中通过一个实例对所述方法进行验证,并从预测误差的角度与其它模型进行比较。最后对该模型特点进行了总结。     

方差分量的广义谱分解估计

对于随机效应部分为一般平衡多向分类的线性混合模型,将王松桂(2002)提出的一种称之为谱分解估计的参数估计新方法推广到随机效应设计阵为任意矩阵的含两个方差分量的线性混合模型,给出了方差分量的广义谱分解估计方法,并证明了所得估计的一些统计性质。另外,还就广义谱分解估计类中某些特殊估计和对应的方差分析估计进行了比较,得到了它们相等的充分必要条件。     

对部分线性模型用惩罚最小二乘估计时最优光滑化的注记

部分线性模型也就是响应变量关于一个或者多个协变量是线性的, 但对于其他的协变量是非线性的关系\bd 对于部分线性模型中的参数和非参数部分的估计方法, 惩罚最小二乘估计是重要的估计方法之一\bd 对于这种估计方法, 广义交叉验证法提供了一种确定光滑参数的方法\bd 但是, 在部分线性模型中, 用广义交叉验证法确定光滑参数的最优性还没有被证明\bd 本文证明了利用惩罚最小二乘估计对于部分线性模型估计时, 用广义交叉验证法选择光滑参数的最优性\bd 通过模拟验证了本文中所提出的用广义交叉验证法选择光滑参数具有很好的效果, 同时, 本文在模拟部分比较了广义交叉验证和最小二乘交叉验证的优劣.     

基于两阶段思想处理拒绝推断的信用评分模型

本文首先从数据缺失机制的角度分析了信用评分模型的开发和应用中所存在的样本偏差问题,提出了可以用拒绝推断来处理此类问题;然后在曾经被应用于拒绝推断问题处理的Heckman两阶段模型的基础上,提出了用拟似然两阶段模型和广义偏线性模型这两种新的两阶段方法来处理信用评分模型中的拒绝推断问题。经过实证分析发现,应用这两种方法可以得到很理想的结果。另外根据本文的研究,人行征信这类外部数据是拒绝推断最有效的方法,如果此类数据缺乏,则用拟似然两阶段模型和广义偏线性模型是比较有效的拒绝推断方法。     

广义线性模型在非寿险费率分析中的应用

本文首先简单分析了传统定价方法的局限性,然后介绍了广义线性模型的基本理论。作为应用,在本文中应用R软件,详细分析了一家欧洲保险公司1994-1998年的车险索赔数据,估计得到了费率结构,它与实际费率结构差异较大,说明原来的费率结构可能需要更新。     

Estimating Frailty Models via Poisson Hierarchical Generalized Linear Models

Frailty models extend proportional hazards models to multivariate survival data. Hierarchical-likelihood provides a simple unified framework for various random effect models such as hierarchical generalized linear models, frailty models, and mixed linear models with censoring. Wereview the hierarchical-likelihood estimation methods for frailty models. Hierarchical-likelihood for frailty models can be expressed as that for Poisson hierarchical generalized linear models. Frailty models can thus be fitted using Poisson hierarchical generalized linear models. Properties of the new methodology are demonstrated by simulation. The new method reduces the bias of maximum likelihood and penalized likelihood estimates.     

Generalized Partially Linear Measurement Error Models

This article considers generalized partially linear models when the linear covariate is measured with additive error. We propose estimators of parameter and nonparametric function by using local linear regression, the SIMEX technique, and generalized estimating equation. The asymptotic normality of the estimators of the parameter, and bias and variance of the estimators of the nonparametric component are derived under appropriate assumptions. In addition, the generalization to clustered measurements is discussed. The approaches are used to the analysis of data from the Framingham Heart Study. A simulation experiment is conducted for an illustration.     

Adaptive Lasso estimators for ultrahigh dimensional generalized linear models

Generalized linear models have been more widely used than linear models which exclude categorical variables. The penalized method becomes an effective tool to study ultrahigh dimensional generalized linear models. In this paper, we study theoretical results of the adaptive Lasso for generalized linear models in terms of diverging number of parameters and ultrahigh dimensionality. The asymptotic results are examined by several simulation studies.     

Boosting local quasi-likelihood estimators

For likelihood-based regression contexts, including generalized linear models, this paper presents a boosting algorithm for local constant quasi-likelihood estimators. Its advantages are the following: (a) the one-boosted estimator reduces bias in local constant quasi-likelihood estimators without increasing the order of the variance, (b) the boosting algorithm requires only one-dimensional maximization at each boosting step and (c) the resulting estimators can be written explicitly and simply in some practical cases.     

A note on bias due to fitting prospective multivariate generalized linear models to categorical outcomes ignoring retrospective sampling schemes

Outcome-dependent sampling designs are commonly used in economics, market research and epidemiological studies. Case-control sampling design is a classic example of outcome-dependent sampling, where exposure information is collected on subjects conditional on their disease status. In many situations, the outcome under consideration may have multiple categories instead of a simple dichotomization. For example, in a case-control study, there may be disease sub-classification among the “cases” based on progression of the disease, or in terms of other histological and morphological characteristics of the disease. In this note, we investigate the issue of fitting prospective multivariate generalized linear models to such multiple-category outcome data, ignoring the retrospective nature of the sampling design. We first provide a set of necessary and sufficient conditions for the link functions that will allow for equivalence of prospective and retrospective inference for the parameters of interest. We show that for categorical outcomes, prospective-retrospective equivalence does not hold beyond the generalized multinomial logit link. We then derive an approximate expression for the bias incurred when link functions outside this class are used. Most popular models for ordinal response fall outside the multiplicative intercept class and one should be cautious while performing a naive prospective analysis of such data as the bias could be substantial. We illustrate the extent of bias through a real data example, based on the ongoing Prostate, Lung, Colorectal and Ovarian (PLCO) cancer screening trial by the National Cancer Institute. The simulations based on the real study illustrate that the bias approximations work well in practice.     

整体视角下的投资者过度自信实证研究

过度自信是行为金融学中的一个重要假说。本文以证券市场整体为研究对象,采用可行的广义最小二乘法(FGLS)估计线性回归模型并结合格兰杰因果检验、指数自回归条件异方差模型(EGARCH)等对中国证券投资者过度自信情况进行实证研究。结果显示,中国投资者普遍存在着过度自信,且这种心理偏差对其投资行为产生了明显影响;与美国等成熟证券市场不同,中国投资者过度自信程度在牛市和熊市中并没有统计上的显著差别。     

Sampling Schemes for Bayesian Variable Selection in Generalized Linear Models

Bayesian approaches to prediction and the assessment of predictive uncertainty in generalized linear models are often based on averaging predictions over different models, and this requires methods for accounting for model uncertainty. When there are linear dependencies among potential predictor variables in a generalized linear model, existing Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms for sampling from the posterior distribution on the model and parameter space in Bayesian variable selection problems may not work well. This article describes a sampling algorithm based on the Swendsen-Wang algorithm for the Ising model, and which works well when the predictors are far from orthogonality. In problems of variable selection for generalized linear models we can index different models by a binary parameter vector, where each binary variable indicates whether or not a given predictor variable is included in the model. The posterior distribution on the model is a distribution on this collection of binary strings, and by thinking of this posterior distribution as a binary spatial field we apply a sampling scheme inspired by the Swendsen-Wang algorithm for the Ising model in order to sample from the model posterior distribution. The algorithm we describe extends a similar algorithm for variable selection problems in linear models. The benefits of the algorithm are demonstrated for both real and simulated data.