Abstract
In this paper, we consider the Wiener–Poisson risk model, which consists of a Wiener process and a compound Poisson process. Given the discrete record of observations, we use a threshold method and a regularized Laplace inversion technique to estimate the survival probability. In addition, we also construct an estimator for the distribution function of jump size and study its consistency and asymptotic normality. Finally, we give some simulations to verify our results.
1. Introduction
Let with be a compound Poisson process defined as
where is a Poisson process with unknown intensity , and are independent and identically distributed positive sequence of random variables with unknown distribution function F supported on .
The Wiener–Poisson risk process is defined by
where x is a given positive constant, is an unknown constant, the corresponding process is called the claim number process, is a sequence of claims, and is a standard Brownian motion. Suppose that , and are independent of each other, and the mean and variance of claim are finite, i.e., , . Further, we assume that the risk model in Equation (1) has a relative safety loading . Let . The survival probability of the risk model in Equation (1) is defined by:
and , the probability of ruin.
In the last few decades, many works have been contributed to the survival probability for the risk model in Equation (1) and its extended risk model. In [], the author first introduced the risk model in Equation (1) and established an asymptotic estimate for . In [], the authors showed that satisfies a defective renewal equation. By renewal theory, they obtained the Pollaczeck–Khinchin formula of . Accurate calculation and approximation for has always been an inspiration and an important source of technological development for actuarial mathematics (see, e.g., [,,,,,,]). Although various approximations to the probability of ruin (e.g., importance sampling or saddle-point approximations) are now available, developing alternative approximations of different nature is still an interesting and practical problem.
In recent years, many authors studied the ruin probability by using statistical methods (see, e.g., [,,,,,,,,]). In [], the author assumed that and are observed, where is the sampling interval and the time of claims are known. The author constructed an estimator for Gerber–Shiu function and obtained its asymptotic property. Please refer to Equation (1.2) in [] for the details of Gerber–Shiu function.
In our work, we suppose that a sample can be observed, where is the sampling interval. However, we cannot observe the exact time and size of claims. To estimate , we have to estimate F, , and . Given the discrete record of observations, we need to judge whether a claim occurs in the interval . The threshold method from [,,,] is to determine that a single jump has occurred within if and only if the increment is larger than a suitable threshold function. By the threshold method and the work in [,], we can estimate F, , and .
In [,], the authors estimated the ruin probability and Gerber–Shiu function by a regularized Laplace inversion technique. Using the threshold method and the work in [], it is easy to obtain an estimator for the Laplace transform of . To estimate , the regularized Laplace inversion technique is used. Finally, we also obtain a rate of convergence for the estimator of in a sense of the integrated squared error (ISE).
This paper is organized as follows. In Section 2, we give some estimators for , , , F and its Laplace–Stieltjes transform. In Section 3, we study the asymptotic properties for the estimators. Finally, we give some conclusions in Section 5. All the technical proofs are presented in Appendix A.
2. Estimation of Survival Probability
To give the estimators for , , , F and the Laplace transform of F, we introduce the following filter:
where is a threshold function and is a complement of . In [,], the threshold function satisfies and . In [], the author gave an expression of threshold function , where is a constant and . Obviously, the expression of from [] satisfies the two conditions. In our work, the expression of is similar to that in [].
We first estimate F. Using and empirical distribution function, we can try to construct an estimator of F as follows:
By Equations (3.4) and (3.6) in [], the estimators of and are
By Equation (3.10) in [], an estimator of is given by
Let . Obviously, the estimator of is given by
The Laplace transform of F is defined by . An estimator of is given by
where and is a compact subset of .
By the work in [], the Laplace transform of can be obtained as follows:
where and .
Let us define an estimator of as follows:
To estimate , we use the -inversion method proposed from []. Now, we give the -inversion method by Definition 1. We say that if .
Definition 1.
Letbe a constant. The regularized Laplace inversionis given by
for a functionand, where
and.
For further information, and details of , please refer to [].
To use Definition 1, it requires to verify . As n is sufficiently large, for -almost all and , we have
From Equations (6) and (8), it is obvious that . The -inversion method in Definition 1 cannot be applied at once.
Therefore, to use Definition 1, we have to amend .
Let
for arbitrary fixed . It is obvious that
An estimator of is given by
Obviously, .
Finally, an estimator of is given by
where and .
3. Asymptotic Properties
According to Theorem 3.1 in [], the author assumed that and with , . In our work, Assumption 1 is used to prove the asymptotic properties of estimators.
Assumption A1.
There exist two positive constants Q and Γ such thatandfor.
Let . With Equation (4), an estimator of is given by
Let be a normal distribution with expectation m and variance n. Theorem 1 gives the asymptotic properties of .
Theorem 1.
Suppose that, , asand Assumption 1 is satisfied, then
Obviously,
Remark 1.
By Dvoretzky–Kiefer–Wolfowitz inequality, we have
where C is a positive constant, not depending on F. Note that this inequality may be expression in the form:
which clearly demonstrate that
The asymptotic properties of are given by the following Lemma 1.
Lemma 1.
Suppose that, andas, then
Lemma 2.
Suppose that, for some, asand Assumption 1 is satisfied. Then,
and
as.
Let for any function f and . Theorem 2 gives a rate of convergence for in a sense of ISE.
Theorem 2.
Suppose that there exists a constantsuch thatand the conditions in Lemma 2 are satisfied. Then, forand for any constant, we have
Remark 2.
The explicit expression foris
whereandand.
When c, λ, σ, F, θ,and sample size n are known,can be evaluated with the commandof Matlab.
4. Simulation
If , the survival probability is given by
where are negative roots of the following equation
By the work in [], Equation (18) is obtained easily.
Let , , , , , and .
Firstly, we computed . In Figure 1, we plot the mean points with sample sizes 5000, 10,000, 30,000, 50,000, 80,000, which were computed based on 5000 simulation experiments.
Figure 1.
The estimator of with sample sizes 5000, 10,000, 30,000, 50,000, 80,000.
In Remark 2, is a double complex integrals. Using Matlab to compute would take a long time. As shown in Figure 1, is very close to as 30,000. To improve computational efficiency, let
where , and .
In Figure 2, we plot the mean points with sample sizes 30,000 and , which were computed based on 5000 simulation experiments.
Figure 2.
with sample size 30,000 and .
5. Conclusions
In this paper, we use the threshold estimation technique and regularized Laplace inversion technique to constructed an estimator of survival probability for the Wiener–Poisson risk model. The rate of convergence for the estimator is a logarithmic rate. We adopt a method proposed by Cai et al. [] to improve the speed in simulated calculation. The further work is to improve the speed of convergence for the estimator. We will combine the threshold estimation technique with Fourier transform (inversion) technique to construct an estimator of survival probability. We hope some further studies will be done when the risk model is the compound Poisson model with the barrier dividend strategy and investment. The Gerber–Shiu function and dividend function will be estimated by some statistical methods.
Author Contributions
Methodology, H.Y.; Formal analysis, H.Y. and Y.G.; Simulation, H.Y.; Writing—original draft, H.Y.
Funding
This research was partially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 11571189, 11571198, 11501319 and 11701319), the Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 2018M642634) and the Higher Educational Science and Technology Program of Shandong Province of China (Grant No. J15LI05).
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to express their thanks to three anonymous referees for their helpful comments and suggestions, which improved an earlier version of the paper.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
Appendix A. Proofs of Theorems
Proof of Lemma 1.
The proof of Lemma 1 is easily obtained by Theorem 3.1 in []. □
Proof of Lemma 2.
To prove Theorem 1, we need the following Proposition, which can be easily obtained in Section 3.2 of [].
Proposition A1.
Following from the condition of Theorem 1, for any,
whereis the size of the eventual jump in time interval.
Proof of Theorem 1.
As , the expectation of J is
By Proposition A1, we have
By the work in [], it is obvious that
Therefore,
As , the variance of J is
With the central limit theorem, Slutsky’s theorem and Lemma 2, we have
□
To prove Theorem 2, we need the following Lemma A1.
Lemma A1.
Suppose thatfor a functionwith the derivative. Then,
By Theorem 3.2 in [], the proof of Lemma A1 can be found.
Proof of Theorem 2.
By Equation (9),
Let . Now, we show that satisfies the condition of Lemma A1.
Therefore, by Lemma A1, we have
By Lemmas 1 and 2, the term
The last equality is obtained from Remark 1.
Recall that (see []), so
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