Robust logistic regression for insurance risk classification

Esteban Flores and José Garrido

DEE - Working Papers. Business Economics. WB from Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía de la Empresa

Abstract: Risk classification is an important part of the actuarial process in Insurance companies. It allows for the underwriting of the best risks, through an appropriate choice of classification variables, and helps set fair premiums in rate-making. Logistic regression is one of the sophisticated statistical methods used by the banking industry to select credit rating variables. Extending the method to insurance risk classification seems natural. But Insurance risks are usually classified in a larger number of classes than good and bad, as is usually the case in credit rating. Here we consider a model generalization to extend the use of logistic regression to insurance risk classification. Since insurance data presents catastrophic losses and heavy tail claim distributions, robust estimation will be important. A new robust regression estimator for the logistic model, both in the binary and multinomial response cases, is proposed. Its asymptotic properties are also studied.

Date: 2001-11
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