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SUMMARY:EAA Web Session: Hands-on Adaptive Learning of GLMs for Risk Modelling in R
DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, machine learning techniques have found their way into the insurance world. While these methods generally improve model accuracy\, both explainability and manual interventions continue to play a key role in risk and tariff modelling. This is why practitioners in many lines of business still apply Generalised Linear Models (GLMs) today for non-life pricing. \n  \nBut conventional modelling with GLMs comes with downsides. It is a mostly manual and step-by-step process\, which may result in overfitting or unrecognised main/interaction effects. \n  \nHowever\, GLMs do offer variants in the flavour of machine learning that automatically adapt to patterns in the data. These techniques are known as regularised GLMs\, and their most prominent versions are the Lasso\, Ridge regression and elastic nets. Not only can these methods proactively prevent overfitting but also adaptively learn non-linear patterns in the data along with an implicitly integrated pre-processing and selection of variables. \n  \nIn this web session\, we will dive into a specific algorithm that uses GLM regularisation in an easy yet powerful way. In this algorithm\, we first postulate a complex model structure that represents all potential linear and non-linear patterns for the main effects (and possibly interaction effects) in the data. We then introduce a global penalty term which we apply to reduce the model to only the statistically significant effects at which model accuracy on unseen data performs best. \n  \nApplying the algorithm results in a simple but generally more accurate model in which we adaptively learned the relevant effects in a data-driven\, simultaneous and automated way. A key feature is that we can account for all common types of explanatory variables (continuous\, ordinal\, nominal) both at the same time and in the same way. The desired balance between model simplicity and forecast accuracy can be set by means of a single control parameter. The final model has a proven GLM structure that is still explainable and allows seamless integration into existing pricing workflows. \n  \nDuring the web session\, we will first explore the theoretical foundations of regularised GLMs and the explicit design of the algorithm. The remainder will then be hands-on as we provide extensive code that implements the algorithm in the statistical programming language R. We will discuss and run the code. You will learn how to use the programme and apply the algorithm to non-life claims data for pricing. Further focus will be on the visualization of the results\, especially on the insights gained from the learned meta-results of the algorithm\, e.g.\, the implicit way how we selected\, prioritised and pre-processed variables. \n  \nAnmeldeschluss: 09.11.2023
URL:https://avoe.at/event/eaa-web-session-hands-on-adaptive-learning-of-glms-for-risk-modelling-in-r/
CATEGORIES:European Actuarial Academy (EAA)
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