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How Close Are the Individual and Collective Models in Risk Theory?

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The subject of this chapter is individual and collective models in insurance risk theory and how ideal probability metrics can be employed to calculate the distance between them.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See Gerber [1981, p. 97].

  2. 2.

    See Gerber [1981, Chap. 4].

  3. 3.

    See Gerber [1981, Sect. 1, Chap. 4].

  4. 4.

    See Gerber [1981, p. 50].

  5. 5.

    See Gerber [1981, p. 97] for s = 1.

  6. 6.

    See, for example, Dunford and Schwartz [1988, Sect. IV.8] and Neveu [1965].

  7. 7.

    See condition (17.3.10) for \(\boldsymbol \zeta _{m,p}\) in Chap. 17.

  8. 8.

    See Definition 15.3.1 in Chap. 15.

  9. 9.

    See (15.3.1) in Chap. 15.

  10. 10.

    See, for example, (6.5.11) in Chap. 6.

  11. 11.

    See Lemmas 16.3.1 and 16.3.3 and (16.3.7).

  12. 12.

    See (18.2.13).

  13. 13.

    See Zolotarev [1986, Theorem 1.4.5] and Kalashnikov and Rachev [1988, Chap. 3, p. 10, Theorem 10].

  14. 14.

    See (18.2.3), (18.2.4), and (18.2.5).

  15. 15.

    See Theorem 18.2.1 and Remark 18.2.2.

  16. 16.

    See (18.2.4), (18.2.7), and (18.2.26).

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Rachev, S.T., Klebanov, L.B., Stoyanov, S.V., Fabozzi, F.J. (2013). How Close Are the Individual and Collective Models in Risk Theory?. In: The Methods of Distances in the Theory of Probability and Statistics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4869-3_18

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