BAMLSS: Bayesian Additive Models for Location,Scale, and Shape (and Beyond)

Bayesian analysis provides a convenient setting for the estimation of complex generalized additive regression models (GAMs). Since computational power has tremendously increased in the past decade, it is now possible to tackle complicated inferential problems, for example, with Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation, on virtually any modern computer. This is one of the reasons why Bayesian methods have become increasingly popular, leading to a number of highly specialized and optimized estimation engines and with attention shifting from conditional mean models to probabilistic distributional models capturing location, scale, shape (and other aspects) of the response distribution. To embed many different approaches suggested in literature and software, a unified modeling architecture for distributional GAMs is established that exploits distributions, estimation techniques (posterior mode or posterior mean), and model terms (fixed, random, smooth, spatial,…). It is shown that within this framework implementing algorithms for complex regression problems, as well as the integration of already existing software, is relatively straightforward. The usefulness is emphasized with two complex and computationally demanding application case studies: a large daily precipitation climatology, as well as a Cox model for continuous time with space-time interactions. Supplementary material for this article is available online.     

GAMLSS模型在车险定价中的应用

在系统梳理国内外非寿险产品费率厘定方法的基础上,详细介绍了GAMLSS模型,证明了在位置参数和尺度参数的预测中均引入随机效应的GAMLSS模型可更有效地解释纵向数据中个体间的异质性.最后将GAMLSS模型应用于一组纵向车辆保险数据,计算了先验保费、后验保费、后验风险保费和奖惩因子.实证结果表明,GAMLSS模型不仅可为非寿险产品的定价提供依据,而且使风险分类更加稳定、合理.     

基于藤Copula的GAMLSS模型与非寿险准备金评估

在假设各个业务线的增量已决赔款服从伽玛分布、逆高斯分布和对数正态分布的基础上,建立了各个业务线增量已决赔款的GAMLSS模型,并将此模型应用于一组具有明显异方差的车险数据,拟合效果优于均值回归模型.另外,在多个业务线的准备金估计中,不同业务线之间的相依性通过藤Copula函数来描述.用D藤Copula描述相依关系的GAMLSS模型对准备金的评估结果既优于独立假设下的GAMLSS模型和链梯法对准备金的评估结果,同时还刻画了不同业务线之间的尾部相依性.     

Distribution characteristics of stock market liquidity

We examine the distribution characteristics of stock market liquidity by employing the generalized additive models for location, scale and shape (GAMLSS) model and three-minute frequency data from Chinese stock markets. We find that the BCPE distribution within the GAMLSS framework fits the distributions of stock market liquidity well with the diagnosis test. We also find that the stock market index exhibits a significant impact on the distributions of stock market liquidity. The stock market liquidity usually exhibits a positive skewness, but a normal distribution at a low level of stock market index and a high-peak and fat-tail shape at a high level of stock market index.