In recent years, the actuarial literature involving machine learning in insurance pricing has flourished. However, most actuarial machine learning research focuses on property and casualty insurance, while using such techniques in health insurance is yet to be explored. In this paper, we discuss...

A simulation study is carried out in order to compare the performance of the Lincoln-Petersen and Chapman estimators for single capture-recapture or dual system estimation when the sizes of the samples or record systems are not fixed by the researcher. Performance is explored through both bias...

The binomial and multinomial distributions are, probably, the best known distributions because of their vast number of applications. The present paper examines some generalizations of these distributions with many practical applications. Properties of these generalizations are studied and models...