Essays about: "Negative Poisson"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 24 essays containing the words Negative Poisson.

  1. 1. Pricing and Modeling Heavy Tailed Reinsurance Treaties - A Pricing Application to Risk XL Contracts

    University essay from KTH/Matematisk statistik

    Author : Ormia Abdullah Mohamad; Anna Westin; [2023]
    Keywords : Reinsurance; Extreme Value Theory; POT-model; Hill estimator; Risk XL contracts; Generalized Pareto distribution; Method of Moments.; Återförsäkring; Extremevärdesteori; POT-modellen; Hill estimatorn; Risk XL kontrakt; generella Paretofördelningen; Momentmetoden.;

    Abstract : To estimate the risk of a loss occurring for insurance takers is a difficult task in the insurance industry. It is an even more difficult task to price the risk for reinsurance companies which insures the primary insurers. READ MORE

  3. 2. Favourable Opportunities in Sports Betting - A Statistical Approach to Football Goals in the Premier League

    University essay from KTH/Matematisk statistik

    Author : Fredrik Lindau; Gustaf Carle; [2022]
    Keywords : statistics; Poisson distribution; Negative Binomial distribution; Bayesian regression; football; Premier League; sports betting; market efficiency; probability theory; estimations; statistik; Poisson fördelning; Negativ Binomial fördelning; Bayesiansk regression; fotboll; Premier League; betting; marknadseffektivitet; sannolikhetsteori; skattningar;

    Abstract : The premise of this report is to delve into sports betting and whether favourable opportunities can be found, more specifically focusing on over and under odds for number of goals scored in football games of the Premier League. Using historical data from football matches several models are developed, the characteristics of goals warranting the use of probability based Poisson and Negative Binomial models, as well as Bayesian Poisson regression for goal predictions. READ MORE

  4. 3. Is there a relationship between Corruption and Public-Private Partnerships?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : William Jeppsson; [2021]
    Keywords : Public-Private Partnerships; PPPs; Corruption; Infrastructure Procurement; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Despite the importance of infrastructure, a big funding gap can be seen in infrastructure procurement. Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) were once seen as a solution, but years later the results are underwhelming. As the industry can be susceptible to corruption, concerns have emerged about PPPs. READ MORE

  5. 4. Supervised Learning for Prediction of Tumour Mutational Burden

    University essay from KTH/Matematisk statistik

    Author : Joanna Hargell; [2021]
    Keywords : Supervised Learning; Tumour Mutational Burden; Generalized Linear Models; Decision trees; Support Vector Machines; statistik; tillämpad matematik; statistisk inlärning; mutationsbörda;

    Abstract : Tumour Mutational Burden is a promising biomarker to predict response to immunotherapy. In this thesis, statistical methods of supervised learning were used to predict TMB: GLM, Decision Trees and SVM. READ MORE

  6. 5. Analyzing the effect of competition in the hospitality industry

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Institutionen för datavetenskap

    Author : Andreas Stasinakis; [2020]
    Keywords : Machine Learning; Competition; Competitive Analysis; Regression; LASSO;

    Abstract : Maximizing hotel's revenue is a hard and complicated task. A lot of aspects have to be taken into consideration during this procedure. One major variable is the competitors. Identifying hotel's competitors and using their behavior could be a crucial advantage for maximizing hotel's revenue. READ MORE