An Investigation Into Modeling Non-Life Insurance Claims In The Nigerian And Ghanaian Insurance Market
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2022-04
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University Of Ghana
Abstract
For calculating non-life insurance premiums, actuaries rely on separate modeling
of frequency and severity using covariates to explain the claims loss exposure.
In this thesis, we focus on the insurance claims severity amount. Two separate
insurance claims data were analyzed using some selected Tree-Based Machine
Learning (ML) Algorithms namely; the Classification and Regression Tree
(CART), Random Forest (RF), and Gradient Boosting (GB) Models. The predictive
performance of the selected models were compared using the Coefficient
of determination (R2), Mean Absolute Error (MAE), and Mean Squared Error
(MSE). In the application of the selected models, this Thesis relied on two different
insurance claims data; The Nigerian and the Ghanaian Insurance claims
dataset. The Nigerian dataset had 10,017 observations from paid claims with 4
explanatory variables, while the Ghanaian dataset had 5,495 observations with
7 explanatory variables. In the analysis, 70% of the data were used for training
and 30% for testing. Both datasets were compared in terms of the selected
performance measures. The results show that the Random Forest model of the
claims amount had the overall best performance for both Nigerian and Ghanaian
Dataset.
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MPhil. Actuarial
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Nigerian, Ghanaian, Insurance Market, Non-Life Insurance