Generalized Linear Models

Abstract

AbstractThis chapter discusses state-of-the-art statistical modeling in insurance and actuarial science, which is the generalized linear model (GLM). We discuss GLMs in the light of claim count and claim size modeling, we present feature engineering, model fitting, model selection, over-dispersion, zero-inflated claim counts problems, double GLMs, and insurance-specific issues such as the balance property for having unbiasedness.