Adaptive Splines for Continuous Features in Risk Assessment

Ndeye Arame Seck and Michel Denuit ()
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Michel Denuit: Université catholique de Louvain, LIDAM/ISBA, Belgium

No 2022036, LIDAM Reprints ISBA from Université catholique de Louvain, Institute of Statistics, Biostatistics and Actuarial Sciences (ISBA)

Abstract: Number and location of knots strongly impact fitted values obtained from spline regression methods. P-splines have been proposed to solve this problem by adding a smoothness penalty to the log-likelihood. This paper aims to demonstrate the strong potential of A-splines (for adaptive splines) proposed by Goepp et al. (2018) for dealing with continuous risk features in insurance studies. Adaptive ridge is used to remove the unnecessary knots from a large number of candidate knots, yielding a sparse model with high interpretability. Two applications are proposed to illustrate the performances of A-splines. First, death probabilities are graduated in a Binomial regression model. Second, continuous risk factors are included in a Poisson regression model for claim counts in motor insurance. We demonstrate that the move from technical to commercial price list can easily be achieved by using A-splines of degree 0, i.e. piecewise constant functions.

Keywords: Generalized Additive Models; Penalized Likelihood; Adaptive Ridge; Banding (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 9
Date: 2022-09-01
Note: In: CAS E-Forum, 2022
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