In actuarial science, and insurance ratemaking, taking into account the exposure can be a nightmare (in datasets, some clients have been here for a few years – we call that exposure – while others have been here for a few months, or weeks). Somehow, simple results because more complicated to compute just because we have to take into account...
Following Arthur Charpentier‘s example, I am going to try to post occasionally on material covered during my courses, in the hope that it might be useful to my students, but also to others. In the second practical of the Bayesian Case Studies course, we looked at Bayesian model choice and basic Monte Carlo methods, looking 
This morning, Stéphane asked me tricky question about extracting coefficients from a regression with categorical explanatory variates. More precisely, he asked me if it was possible to store the coefficients in a nice table, with information on the variable and the modality (those two information being in two different columns). Here is some code I did to produce the...
I have been working with R for some time now, but once in a while, basic functions catch my eye that I was not aware of… For some project I wanted to transform a correlation matrix into a covariance matrix. Now, since cor2cov does not exist, I thought about “reversing” the cov2cor function (stats:::cov2cor). Inside 
In insurance, the law of large numbers (named loi des grands nombres initially by Siméon Poisson, see e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/…) is usually mentioned to legitimate large portfolios, because of pooling and diversification: the larger the pool, the more ‘predictable’ the losses will be (in a given period). Of course, under standard statistical assumption, namely finite expected value, and independence (see http://freakonometrics.blog.free.fr/…....
In order to illustrate the construction of regression tree (using the CART methodology), consider the following simulated dataset, > set.seed(1) > n=200 > X1=runif(n) > X2=runif(n) > P=.8*(X1<.3)*(X2<.5)+ + .2*(X1<.3)*(X2>.5)+ + .8*(X1>.3)*(X1<.85)*(X2<.3)+ + .2*(X1>.3)*(X1<.85)*(X2>.3)+ + .8*(X1>.85)*(X2<.7)+ + .2*(X1>.85)*(X2>.7) > Y=rbinom(n,size=1,P) > B=data.frame(Y,X1,X2) with one dichotomos varible (the variable of interest, ), and two continuous ones (the explanatory ones and ). > tail(B) Y...
In case you missed previous parts, the links to them are listed below. Part 1 Part 2 In this part, I tried to recreate the examples in section A.2.3 of the computational appendix in the reaction engineering book (by Rawlings and … Continue reading →
In case you missed part 1, you can view it here. In this part, I tried to recreate the examples in section A.2.2 of the computational appendix in the reaction engineering book by Rawlings and Ekerdt. Solving a nonlinear system of equations … Continue reading →
Chemical Reactor Analysis and Design Fundamentals by J.B. Rawlings and J. G. Ekerdt is a textbook for studying Chemical Reaction Engineering. The popular open source package Octave has its origins to the reaction engineering course offered by Prof. Rawlings. This book … Continue reading →
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
