Vytaras Brazauskas

University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Bolton Hall 802

3210 N. Maryland Ave.

Milwaukee, WI 53201

United States

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Scholarly Papers (21)

1.

Modeling Severity and Measuring Tail Risk of Norwegian Fire Claims

North American Actuarial Journal, 20(1), 1-16, 2016
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 08 May 2015 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2019
Vytaras Brazauskas and Andreas Kleefeld
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee and Brandenburg Technical University
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Model Uncertainty in Operational Risk Modeling

2015 ERM Symposium, SOA Monograph
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 08 May 2015 Last Revised: 13 Apr 2016
Daoping Yu and Vytaras Brazauskas
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee and University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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Trends in Disguise

Annals of Actuarial Science, 9(1), 58-71, 2015
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 26 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 07 May 2015
Vytaras Brazauskas, Bruce L. Jones and Ricardas Zitikis
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, University of Western Ontario - Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences and Western University
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Deductible; Deflation; Inflation rate; Insurance claims; Polynomial Pareto distribution

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Model Selection and Averaging of Health Costs in Episode Treatment Groups

ASTIN Bulletin, 47(1), 153-167, 2017
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 08 May 2015 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2017
Shujuan Huang, Brian M. Hartman and Vytaras Brazauskas
Liberty Mutual, Brigham Young University and University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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Akaike Weights, Bayesian Model Selection, Model Averaging, Random Forest

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Robust and Efficient Fitting of the Generalized Pareto Distribution with Actuarial Applications in View

Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 45(3), 424-435, 2009
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 08 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 18 Jun 2014
Vytaras Brazauskas and Andreas Kleefeld
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee and Brandenburg Technical University
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Pure Premium, Robust Statistics, Simulations, Trimmed Moments, Value-at-Risk

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Case Studies Using Credibility and Corrected Adaptively Truncated Likelihood Methods

Variance, 7(2), 168-192, 2014
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 15 May 2014 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2019
Harald Dornheim and Vytaras Brazauskas
PwC and University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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Folded- and Log-Folded-t Distributions as Models for Insurance Loss Data

Scandinavian Actuarial Journal, 2011(1), 59-74, 2011
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 15 May 2014 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2019
Vytaras Brazauskas and Andreas Kleefeld
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee and Brandenburg Technical University
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Robust Fitting of Claim Severity Distributions and the Method of Trimmed Moments

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 139(6), 2028-2043, 2009
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 08 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 18 Jun 2014
Vytaras Brazauskas, Bruce L. Jones and Ricardas Zitikis
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, University of Western Ontario - Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences and Western University
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Robust-Efficient Credibility Models with Heavy-Tailed Claims: A Mixed Linear Models Perspective

Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 48(1), 72-84, 2011
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 15 May 2014
Harald Dornheim and Vytaras Brazauskas
PwC and University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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Adaptive robust-efficient estimation, asymmetric heavy-tailed residuals, credibility ratemaking, mixed linear model, treatment of excess claims

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Robust and Efficient Fitting of Severity Models and the Method of Winsorized Moments

ASTIN Bulletin, 48(1), 275-309, 2018
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 17 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2019
Qian Zhao, Vytaras Brazauskas and Jugal Ghorai
Robert Morris University - Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee and University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee - Department of Mathematical Sciences
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Claim severity, efficiency, insurance layer, robustness, Winsorized data.

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Ordering Gini Indexes of Multivariate Elliptical Risks

Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 68(3), 84-91, 2016
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 13 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2019
Ranadeera Samanthi, Wei Wei and Vytaras Brazauskas
Central Michigan University, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee and University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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Gini index, elliptical distribution, dependence structure, comonotonicity, usual stochastic order, increasing convex order, supermodular order, pd-1 order

12.

Comparing the Riskiness of Dependent Portfolios via Nested L-Statistics

Annals of Actuarial Science, 11(2), 237-252, 2017
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 14 Sep 2016 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2017
Ranadeera Samanthi, Wei Wei and Vytaras Brazauskas
Central Michigan University, University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee and University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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Copulas, risk measures, insurance portfolios, hypothesis tests, Gini index

13.

Robust Estimation of Loss Models for Truncated and Censored Severity Data

Variance 15 (2), 2022.
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 06 Apr 2022 Last Revised: 21 Oct 2022
Chudamani Poudyal and Vytaras Brazauskas
University of Central Florida and University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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Insurance Payments; Loss Models; Robust Estimation; Trimmed and Winsorized Moments; Truncated and Censored Data.

14.

Model Uncertainty in Operational Risk Modeling Due to Data Truncation: A Single Risk Case

Risks, 5(49), 2017
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 17 Nov 2017
Daoping Yu and Vytaras Brazauskas
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee and University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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Asymptotics, data truncation, delta method, model validation, operational risk, VaR estimation.

15.

Model Efficiency and Uncertainty in Quantile Estimation of Loss Severity Distributions

Risks, 7(55), 2019
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 09 Jun 2019
Vytaras Brazauskas and Sahadeb Upretee
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee and Central Washington University
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data truncation and censoring, empirical estimator, maximum likelihood, model uncertainty, percentile matching, quantile estimation

16.

Robust-Efficient Fitting of Mixed Linear Models: Methodology and Theory

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 141(4), 1422-1435, 2011
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 15 May 2014 Last Revised: 11 Apr 2019
Harald Dornheim and Vytaras Brazauskas
PwC and University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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Adaptive estimation, efficiency, outlier detection, robustness, truncated likelihood

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Robust and Efficient Fitting of Loss Models: Diagnostic Tools and Insights

North American Actuarial Journal, 13(3), 356-369, 2009
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 08 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 18 Jun 2014
Vytaras Brazauskas
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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Computing and Estimating Distortion Risk Measures: How to Handle Analytically Intractable Cases?

North American Actuarial Journal, 2022
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 07 Dec 2022
Sahadeb Upretee and Vytaras Brazauskas
Central Washington University and University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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Distribution Tails, Loss Severity, Risk Measures, Skewed Distributions

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Smoothed Quantiles for Measuring Discrete Risks

North American Actuarial Journal
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 13 May 2022
Vytaras Brazauskas and Ponmalar Ratnam
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
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Discrete Risks, Insurance Loss, Risk Measures, Smoothed Quantiles

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Method of Winsorized Moments for Robust Fitting of Truncated and Censored Lognormal Distributions

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 02 May 2022
Chudamani Poudyal, Qian Zhao and Vytaras Brazauskas
University of Central Florida, Robert Morris University and University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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Adaptive and Robust Estimation, Composite Models, Insurance Payments, Lognormal Distribution, Trimmed and Winsorized Moments, Truncated and Censored Data

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Finite-Sample Performance of the T- and W-Estimators for the Pareto Tail Index under Data Truncation and Censoring

Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 07 Dec 2022
Chudamani Poudyal and Vytaras Brazauskas
University of Central Florida and University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
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Insurance Payments, Pareto Tail Index, Robust Estimation, Trimmed and Winsorized Moments, Truncated and Censored Data