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PROCEEDINGS May 15, 16, 17, 18, 2005 - Casualty Actuarial Society

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WHEN CAN ACCIDENT YEARS BE REGARDED AS DEVELOPMENT YEARS? 251FIGURE 5Plot of Exposure-Adjusted Log Paid Incremental DataAgainst Development Year (one of the plots has hadits development period labels randomly allocated)labels do carry information over and above being arbitrary identifiersof a category into which the observation falls (as they doin claims runoff), the chain ladder model is inappropriate.With the lower plot of Figure 5, one could omit all of thedata for any development period between 1 and 8 (i.e., replacethe observations with missing values) and still be able to get a

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