fitdistrplus (version 1.0-8)

danish: Danish reinsurance claim dataset

Description

The univariate dataset was collected at Copenhagen Reinsurance and comprise 2167 fire losses over the period 1980 to 1990. They have been adjusted for inflation to reflect 1985 values and are expressed in millions of Danish Krone.

The multivariate data set is the same data as above but the total claim has been divided into a building loss, a loss of contents and a loss of profits.

Usage

data(danishuni)
data(danishmulti)

Format

danishuni contains two columns:

danishmulti contains five columns:

All columns are numeric except Date columns of class Date.

Source

Embrechts, P., Kluppelberg, C. and Mikosch, T. (1997) Modelling Extremal Events for Insurance and Finance. Berlin: Springer.

References

Dataset used in McNeil (1996), Estimating the Tails of Loss Severity Distributions using Extreme Value Theory, ASTIN Bull. Davison, A. C. (2003) Statistical Models. Cambridge University Press. Page 278.

Examples

# (1) load of data
#
data(danishuni)


# (2) plot and description of data
#
plotdist(danishuni$Loss)


# (3) load of data
#
data(danishmulti)


# (4) plot and description of data
#
idx <- sample(1:NROW(danishmulti), 10)
barplot(danishmulti$Building[idx], col = "grey25", 
  ylim = c(0, max(danishmulti$Total[idx])), main = "Some claims of danish data set")
barplot(danishmulti$Content[idx], add = TRUE, col = "grey50", axes = FALSE)
barplot(danishmulti$Profits[idx], add = TRUE, col = "grey75", axes = FALSE)
legend("topleft", legend = c("Building", "Content", "Profits"), 
  fill = c("grey25", "grey50", "grey75"))