Sample Selection

Steven Finlay

Chapter 3 in Credit Scoring, Response Modeling, and Insurance Rating, 2012, pp 66-88 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The databases available for model construction can be vast. Some consumer databases contain hundreds of millions of records (observations) and thousands of predictor variables. Even with modern computing facilities it may not be practical to use all of the data available. There will also be cases that are not suitable for model construction, and these need to be identified and dealt with. The data used for model construction should also be as similar as possible to the data that will exist when the completed model is put into service — which usually means that the sample used to construct the model should be as recent as possible to mitigate against changes in the patterns of behavior that accumulate over time. For these reasons it is common for models to be constructed using a sub-set (a sample) of the available data, rather than the full population.

Keywords: Model Construction; Insurance Rate; Forecast Horizon; Adaptive Sampling; Balance Sample (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137031693_3

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