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| Publication date |
2006
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| Journal |
Acta Mathematicae Applicatae Sinica. English series
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| Volume | Issue number |
22 | 4
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| Pages (from-to) |
543-564
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| Number of pages |
22
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| Organisations |
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Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) - Amsterdam School of Economics Research Institute (ASE-RI)
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| Abstract |
In the actuarial literature, several exact and approximative recursive methods have been proposed for calculating the distribution of a sum of mutually independent compound Bernoulli distributed random variables. In this paper, we give an overview of these methods. We compare their performance with the straightforward convolution technique by counting the number of dot operations involved in each method. It turns out that in many practicle situations, the recursive methods outperform the convolution method.
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| Document type |
Article
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| Language |
English
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| Published at |
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10255-006-0329-0
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