This is a book about statistical distributions, their properties, and their application to modelling the dependence of the location, scale, and shape of the distribution of a response variable on explanatory variables. It will be especially useful to applied statisticians and data scientists in a wide range of application areas, and also to those interested in the theoretical properties of distributions. This book follows the earlier book ‘Flexible Regression and Smoothing: Using GAMLSS in R’, [Stasinopoulos et al., 2017], which focused on the GAMLSS model and software. GAMLSS (the Generalized Additive Model for Location, Scale, and Shape, [Rigby and Stasinopoulos, 2005]), is a regression framework in which the response variable can have any parametric distribution and all the distribution parameters can be modelled as linear or smooth functions of explanatory variables. The current book focuses on distributions and their application. Key features: <ul>
<li>Describes over 100 distributions, (implemented in the GAMLSS packages in R), including continuous, discrete and mixed distributions.</li> </ul> <ul>
<li>Comprehensive summary tables of the properties of the distributions.</li> </ul> <ul>
<li>Discusses properties of distributions, including skewness, kurtosis, robustness and an important classification of tail heaviness.</li> </ul> <ul>
<li>Includes mixed distributions which are continuous distributions with additional specific values with point probabilities.</li> </ul> <ul>
<li>Includes many real data examples, with R code integrated in the text for ease of understanding and replication.</li> </ul> <ul>
<li>Supplemented by the gamlss website.</li> </ul> This book will be useful for applied statisticians and data scientists in selecting a distribution for a univariate response variable and modelling its dependence on explanatory variables, and to those interested in the properties of distributions.

Distributions for Modeling Location, Scale, and Shape: Using GAMLSS in R (Chapman & Hall/CRC The R Series)

Science & Math

Heller, Gillian Z.

Stasinopoulos, Mikis D.

Rigby, Robert A.

De Bastiani, Fernanda

Mathematics

Chapman and Hall/CRC

Flexible Regression and Smoothing: Using GAMLSS in R (Chapman & Hall/CRC The R Series)

This book is about learning from data using the Generalized Additive Models for Location, Scale and Shape (GAMLSS). GAMLSS extends the Generalized Linear Models (GLMs) and Generalized Additive Models (GAMs) to accommodate large complex datasets, which are increasingly prevalent.\nIn particular, the GAMLSS statistical framework enables flexible regression and smoothing models to be fitted to the data. The GAMLSS model assumes that the response variable has any parametric (continuous, discrete or mixed) distribution which might be heavy- or light-tailed, and positively or negatively skewed. In addition, all the parameters of the distribution (location, scale, shape) can be modelled as linear or smooth functions of explanatory variables.\nKey Features:\nProvides a broad overview of flexible regression and smoothing techniques to learn from data whilst also focusing on the practical application of methodology using GAMLSS software in R.\nIncludes a comprehensive collection of real data examples, which reflect the range of problems addressed by GAMLSS models and provide a practical illustration of the process of using flexible GAMLSS models for statistical learning.\nR code integrated into the text for ease of understanding and replication.\nSupplemented by a website with code, data and extra materials.\nThis book aims to help readers understand how to learn from data encountered in many fields. It will be useful for practitioners and researchers who wish to understand and use the GAMLSS models to learn from data and also for students who wish to learn GAMLSS through practical examples.

Voudouris, Vlasios

This is the only book actuaries need to understand generalized linear models (GLMs) for insurance applications. GLMs are used in the insurance industry to support critical decisions. Until now, no text has introduced GLMs in this context or addressed the problems specific to insurance data. Using insurance data sets, this practical, rigorous book treats GLMs, covers all standard exponential family distributions, extends the methodology to correlated data structures, and discusses recent developments which go beyond the GLM. The issues in the book are specific to insurance data, such as model selection in the presence of large data sets and the handling of varying exposure times. Exercises and data-based practicals help readers to consolidate their skills, with solutions and data sets given on the companion website. Although the book is package-independent, SAS code and output examples feature in an appendix and on the website. In addition, R code and output for all the examples are provided on the website.

Generalized Linear Models for Insurance Data (International Series on Actuarial Science)

Business & Money

de Jong, Piet

Education & Reference

Cambridge University Press

This is the only book actuaries need to understand generalized linear models (GLMs) for insurance applications. GLMs are used in the insurance industry to support critical decisions. Until now, no text has introduced GLMs in this context or addressed the problems specific to insurance data. Using insurance data sets, this practical, rigorous book treats GLMs, covers all standard exponential family distributions, extends the methodology to correlated data structures, and discusses recent developments which go beyond the GLM. The issues in the book are specific to insurance data, such as model selection in the presence of large data sets and the handling of varying exposure times. Exercises and data-based practicals help readers to consolidate their skills, with solutions and data sets given on the companion website. Although the book is package-independent, SAS code and output examples feature in an appendix and on the website. In addition, R code and output for all the examples are provided on the website.

Insurance

Generalized Additive Models for Location, Scale and Shape: A Distributional Regression Approach, with Applications (Cambridge Series in Statistical and Probabilistic Mathematics, Series Number 56)

Kneib, Thomas

Mayr, Andreas

Klein, Nadja

Reference

This is a book about statistical distributions, their properties, and their application to modelling the dependence of the location, scale, and shape of the distribution of a response variable on explanatory variables. It will be especially useful to applied statisticians and data scientists in a wide range of application areas, and also to those interested in the theoretical properties of distributions. This book follows the earlier book ‘Flexible Regression and Smoothing: Using GAMLSS in R’, [Stasinopoulos et al., 2017], which focused on the GAMLSS model and software. GAMLSS (the Generalized Additive Model for Location, Scale, and Shape, [Rigby and Stasinopoulos, 2005]), is a regression framework in which the response variable can have any parametric distribution and all the distribution parameters can be modelled as linear or smooth functions of explanatory variables. The current book focuses on distributions and their application.\nKey features:\nDescribes over 100 distributions, (implemented in the GAMLSS packages in R), including continuous, discrete and mixed distributions.\nComprehensive summary tables of the properties of the distributions.\nDiscusses properties of distributions, including skewness, kurtosis, robustness and an important classification of tail heaviness.\nIncludes mixed distributions which are continuous distributions with additional specific values with point probabilities.\nIncludes many real data examples, with R code integrated in the text for ease of understanding and replication.\nSupplemented by the gamlss website.\nThis book will be useful for applied statisticians and data scientists in selecting a distribution for a univariate response variable and modelling its dependence on explanatory variables, and to those interested in the properties of distributions.

Distributions for Modeling Location, Scale, and Shape (Chapman & Hall/CRC The R Series)

This book is about learning from data using the Generalized Additive Models for Location, Scale and Shape (GAMLSS). GAMLSS extends the Generalized Linear Models (GLMs) and Generalized Additive Models (GAMs) to accommodate large complex datasets, which are increasingly prevalent. In particular, the GAMLSS statistical framework enables flexible regression and smoothing models to be fitted to the data. The GAMLSS model assumes that the response variable has any parametric (continuous, discrete or mixed) distribution which might be heavy- or light-tailed, and positively or negatively skewed. In addition, all the parameters of the distribution (location, scale, shape) can be modelled as linear or smooth functions of explanatory variables. Key Features: <ul>
<li>Provides a broad overview of flexible regression and smoothing techniques to learn from data whilst also focusing on the practical application of methodology using GAMLSS software in R. </li> <li>Includes a comprehensive collection of real data examples, which reflect the range of problems addressed by GAMLSS models and provide a practical illustration of the process of using flexible GAMLSS models for statistical learning.</li> <li>R code integrated into the text for ease of understanding and replication.</li> <li>Supplemented by a website with code, data and extra materials.</li> </ul> This book aims to help readers understand how to learn from data encountered in many fields. It will be useful for practitioners and researchers who wish to understand and use the GAMLSS models to learn from data and also for students who wish to learn GAMLSS through practical examples.

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