Abstract We investigate the potential Bayesianity of maximum likelihood estimators (MLE), under absolute value error loss, for estimating the location parameter θ of symmetric and unimodal density functions in the presence of (i) a lower (or upper) bounded constraint, and (ii) an interval...

The aggregate claim amount in a particular time period is a quantity of fundamental importance for proper management of an insurance company and also for pricing of insurance coverages. In this paper, we show that the proportional hazard rates (PHR) model, which includes some well-known...

Payandeh [Payandeh Najafabadi, A.T., 2010. A new approach to credibility formula. Insurance: Mathematics and Economy 46, 334–338] introduced a new technique to approximate a Bayes’ estimator with the exact credibility’s form. This article employs a well known and powerful maximum-entropy...