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110 <strong>Actuarial</strong> <strong>Modelling</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Claim</strong> <strong>Counts</strong><br />

• when we compare the Poisson-Gamma model with the Poisson-Inverse Gaussian model,<br />

the value <strong>of</strong> the test statistic is equal to −07988 leading to a p-value <strong>of</strong> 4244 %.<br />

• when we compare the Poisson-Gamma model with the Poisson-LogNormal model, the<br />

value <strong>of</strong> the test statistic is equal to −07688 leading to a p-value <strong>of</strong> 4420 %.<br />

• when we compare the Poisson-Inverse Gaussian model with the Poisson-LogNormal<br />

model, the value <strong>of</strong> the test statistic is equal to −05922 leading to a p-value <strong>of</strong><br />

5537 %.<br />

Therefore, the three models are not statistically different. Applying the same testing procedure<br />

to the policies that are in the portfolio for the first two years (this means 12 202 policies)<br />

yields the same conclusion.<br />

2.9.10 Information Criteria<br />

Non-nested models are <strong>of</strong>ten compared using likelihood-based criteria, including the<br />

well-known AIC, for instance. Since the competing models have the same number <strong>of</strong><br />

parameters, it is enough to examine the respective log-likelihoods. A commonly used<br />

rule-<strong>of</strong>-thumb consists in considering that two models are significantly different if the<br />

difference in the log-likelihoods exceeds five (corresponding to a difference in AICs <strong>of</strong><br />

more than ten, as discussed in Burnham & Anderson (2002)). This means here that<br />

the Poisson-Inverse Gaussian and Poisson-LogNormal models are significantly better than<br />

the Negative Binomial model. Considering the maximum <strong>of</strong> the log-likelihood, we chose<br />

the Poisson-LogNormal model for Portfolio B. The same conclusion is obtained using<br />

different criteria <strong>of</strong>ten used in practice. For instance, Raftery (1995) suggested that a<br />

model significantly outperfoms a competitor if the difference in their respective BIC values<br />

exceeds 5.<br />

2.9.11 Resulting <strong>Classification</strong> for Portfolio B<br />

Table 2.16 gives the resulting price list obtained with the Poisson-LogNormal model<br />

described in Table 2.15. The final a priori ratemaking contains 18 classes. This ratemaking<br />

will be used throughout the text for the examples involving Portfolio B.<br />

There is another way to present the results displayed in Table 2.16. The annual expected<br />

claim frequency is obtained from the reference class, with<br />

exp̂ 0 = 2950 %<br />

according to Table 2.15. Applying correction coefficients, we then obtain the annual expected<br />

claim frequency <strong>of</strong> any policyholder. Specifically, it is obtained from the multiplicative<br />

formula

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