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Credibility Models (Basics)

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Credibility methods predict a non-observable random variable or a non-observable random vector by an affine-linear transformation of observable random variables which satisfies a certain optimality criterion.

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Correspondence to Klaus D. Schmidt .

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Schmidt, K.D. (2016). Credibility Models (Basics). In: Radtke, M., Schmidt, K.D., Schnaus, A. (eds) Handbook on Loss Reserving. EAA Series. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30056-6_11

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