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Proportional Hazard Estimation Adjusted by Continuous Credibility

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2015

Jens Perch Nielsen
Affiliation:
Royal&Sun Alliance, Codan, Gammel Kongevej 60, 1790 København V, Denmark, E-mail: npj@codan.dk and san@codan.dk
Bjørn Lunding Sandqvist
Affiliation:
Royal&Sun Alliance, Codan, Gammel Kongevej 60, 1790 København V, Denmark, E-mail: npj@codan.dk and san@codan.dk
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Abstract

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This paper extends the continuous credibility weighting introduced to hazard estimation in Hardy and Panjer (1998) and Nielsen and Sandqvist (2000) to the more general case, where the common basis is a proportional hazard model.

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Copyright © ASTIN Bulletin 2005

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