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Abstract

Actuaries are often in search of nding an adequate loss model in the scenario of actuarial and financial risk management problems. In this work, we propose a new approach to obtain a new class of loss distributions. A special sub-model of the proposed family, called the Weibull-loss model is
considered in detail. Some mathematical properties are derived and maximum likelihood estimates of the model parameters are obtained. Certain characterizations of the proposed family are also provided. A simulation study is done to evaluate the performance of the maximum likelihood estimators. Finally, an application of the proposed model to the vehicle insurance loss data set is presented.

Keywords

Family of distributions Heavy tailed distributions Weibull distribution Vehicle insurance losses Estimation.

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Ahmad, Z. A., Mahmoudi, E. M., & Hamedani, G. G. (2019). A Family of Loss Distributions with an Application to the Vehicle Insurance Loss Data. Pakistan Journal of Statistics and Operation Research, 15(3), 731-744. https://doi.org/10.18187/pjsor.v15i3.2995