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Survival Probabilities Based on Pareto Claim Distributions: Comment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2014

Marc J. Goovaerts  and
Nelson de Pril
Marc J. Goovaerts
Affiliation:
Instituut voor Actuariële Wetenschappen, K. U. Leuven
Nelson de Pril
Affiliation:
Instituut voor Actuariële Wetenschappen, K. U. Leuven
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In a recent paper Seal (1980) calculated numerically survival probabilities based on Pareto claim distributions.

The Pareto density may be written as

Generalizing, the Pareto distribution may be regarded as a special case of the so-called beta-prime distribution (Keeping, 1962, p. 83) with density function

where B(p, q) = is the beta function.

In his paper Seal (1980, Appendix 1) arrived at a contradiction concerning this beta-prime distribution. He found on one side that all derivatives of the characteristic function exist at the origin and on the other side that only the moments of order n < q exist. In this note we will show that this contradiction is due to the use of an incorrect expression for the characteristic function of the beta-prime distribution, which was taken over from Johnson and Kotz (1970, Ch. 26) and Oberhettinger (1973, Table A).

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Research Article
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ASTIN Bulletin: The Journal of the IAA , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , December 1980 , pp. 154 - 157
Copyright
Copyright © International Actuarial Association 1980

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