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If K is a field, and g, h ∈ K(x) are rational functions of degree greater than one, then f = g ◦ h = g(h) is their (functional) composition, (g, h) is a (functional) decomposition of f , and f is a decomposable rational function. The univariate rational functional decomposition problem can be stated as follows: given f ∈ K(x), determine whether there exists a decomposition (g, h) of f with g an...

This paper discusses different classes of loss models in non-life insurance settings. It then overviews the class of Tukey transform loss models that have not yet been widely considered in non-life insurance modelling, but offer opportunities to produce flexible skewness and kurtosis features often required in loss modelling. In addition, these loss models admit explicit quantile specifications...

Abstract. In this paper, we propose to study a generalized form of the exponential power distribution which contains others in the literature as special cases. This unifying exponential power distribution is characterized by a parameter ω and a function h(ω) which regulates the tail behavior of the distribution, thus making it more flexible and suitable for modeling than the usual normal di...

The current paper introduces new prior distributions on the univariate normal model, with the aim of applying them to the classification of univariate normal populations. These new prior distributions are entirely based on the Riemannian geometry of the univariate normal model, so that they can be thought of as “Riemannian priors”. Precisely, if {pθ; θ ∈ Θ} is any parametrization of the univari...