A New Generalization of the Pareto Distribution and Its Application to Insurance Data

The Pareto classical distribution is one of the most attractive in statistics and particularly in the scenario of actuarial statistics and finance. For example, it is widely used when calculating reinsurance premiums. In the last years, many alternative distributions have been proposed to obtain bet...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Mohamed E. Ghitany, Emilio Gómez-Déniz, Saralees Nadarajah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-02-01
Series:Journal of Risk and Financial Management
Subjects:
fit
Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1911-8074/11/1/10