Revista Integración, temas de matemáticas.
Vol. 31 No. 1 (2013): Revista Integración, temas de matemáticas
Research and Innovation Articles

A relation between the Hofmann’s distribution and Panjer’s distribution

José Alfredo Jiménez Moscoso
Universidad Nacional de Colombia

Published 2013-07-29

Keywords

  • Panjer’s distribution,
  • Hofmann’s distribution,
  • Poisson-Pascal dis-tribution,
  • Pochhammer’s symbol

How to Cite

Jiménez Moscoso, J. A. (2013). A relation between the Hofmann’s distribution and Panjer’s distribution. Revista Integración, Temas De matemáticas, 31(1), 59–67. Retrieved from https://revistas.uis.edu.co/index.php/revistaintegracion/article/view/3384

Abstract

One of the main objectives of actuarial risk theory is to modelthe number of claims by a classical probability distribution, but due to poor statistical fit obtained sometimes, in actuarial literature it is proposed to usethe Panjer’s family of distributions, since for specific values of its parameters can generate some discrete distributions. This paper shows that the Panjer’s distribution is a particular case of the Hofmann’s distribution.

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