<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC "-//NLM//DTD Journal Publishing DTD v3.0 20080202//EN" "http://dtd.nlm.nih.gov/publishing/3.0/journalpublishing3.dtd"><article xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" dtd-version="3.0" xml:lang="en" article-type="research article"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">JMF</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title>Journal of Mathematical Finance</journal-title></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="epub">2162-2434</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Scientific Research Publishing</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.4236/jmf.2015.52016</article-id><article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">JMF-56278</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Articles</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="Discipline-v2"><subject>Business&amp;Economics</subject><subject> Physics&amp;Mathematics</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>
 
 
  The Stochastic Error Rate Estimation of Prediction Distributions
 
</article-title></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" xlink:type="simple"><name name-style="western"><surname>afedh</surname><given-names>Faires</given-names></name><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff1"><sub>1</sub></xref><xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor1"><sup>*</sup></xref></contrib></contrib-group><aff id="aff1"><label>1</label><addr-line>Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Al Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University (IMSIU), 
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia</addr-line></aff><author-notes><corresp id="cor1">* E-mail:<email>hafedh.faires@hotmail.com</email></corresp></author-notes><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>30</day><month>03</month><year>2015</year></pub-date><volume>05</volume><issue>02</issue><fpage>172</fpage><lpage>177</lpage><history><date date-type="received"><day>23</day>	<month>March</month>	<year>2015</year></date><date date-type="rev-recd"><day>accepted</day>	<month>11</month>	<year>May</year>	</date><date date-type="accepted"><day>13</day>	<month>May</month>	<year>2015</year></date></history><permissions><copyright-statement>&#169; Copyright  2014 by authors and Scientific Research Publishing Inc. </copyright-statement><copyright-year>2014</copyright-year><license><license-p>This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/</license-p></license></permissions><abstract><p>
 
 
  The estimation of claims reserves is usually done by applying techniques called IBNR techniques within a stochastic framework. The main objective of this paper is to predict the partial reserve and to estimate the error rate of prediction distributions by using the stochastic model proposed in [1].
 
</p></abstract><kwd-group><kwd>Reserving Claims</kwd><kwd> EDS</kwd><kwd> Error Rate</kwd><kwd> Prediction Distributions</kwd></kwd-group></article-meta></front><body><sec id="s1"><title>1. Introduction</title><p>The calculation of the provisions for disaster payments is intended to allow the integral payment of the commitments to the policy-holders and the recipients of the contract. The provisions measure the commitments that the insurer still has to honor. Nevertheless, this countable concept requires a subjacent probabilistic model since it allows one to define the ultimate claim, taking into account the disasters not yet declared, but which have occurred, the disasters not sufficiently funded. Reserves are given by evaluating the provisions for each contract, IBNR (sinister not yet declared) and IBNER (sinister not sufficiently funded). Traditional methods of provisioning (by triangulation) rest on the assumption that the data are homogeneous and in sufficient quantity to ensure a certain stability and a certain credibility. The purpose of this paper is to propose a stochastic extension of the Chain-Ladder model concerning the partial prediction reserve and to estimate the error rate of prediction distributions, which seems to be closer to reality for us than the existing methods of Schnieper [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.56278-ref2">2</xref>] ; Mack [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.56278-ref3">3</xref>] ; Liu and Verrall [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.56278-ref4">4</xref>] ; Verrall and England [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.56278-ref5">5</xref>] .</p><p>Models in which parameters move between a fixed number of regimes with switching controlled by an unobserved stochastic process, are very popular in a great variety of domains (Finance, Biology, Meteorology, Networks, etc.). This is notably due to the fact that this additional flexibility allows the model to account for random regime changes in the environment. In this paper we consider the prediction of partial reserve and consider the estimation of error rate of prediction distributions for a model described by a stochastic differential equation (SDE) with Markov regime-switching (MRS), i.e., with parameters controlled by a finite state continuous-time Markov chain (CTMC) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.56278-ref1">1</xref>] and [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.56278-ref6">6</xref>] . Such a model was used, for example, in Deshpande and Ghosh (2008) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.56278-ref7">7</xref>] , to price options in a regime switching market. In such a setting, the parameter estimation problem posed a real challenge, mainly due to the fact that the paths of the CTMC were unobserved. A standard approach consists in using the celebrated EM algorithm (Dempster, Laird and Rubin, 1977) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.56278-ref8">8</xref>] as proposed, for example in Elliott, Malcolm and Tsoi (2003) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.56278-ref9">9</xref>] and Hamilton (1990) [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.56278-ref10">10</xref>] , study this problem using a filtering approach.</p><p>The rest of the paper is structured as follows. In Section 2, we present the stochastic model for our problem. Section 3 is devoted to predicting the claims reserves variance. We conclude with a summary in the last section.</p></sec><sec id="s2"><title>2. Hypotheses and Description of the Model</title><p>We suppose that the available data have a triangular form indexed by the year of accident, i, and the development time, t. Given a triangle, on T years, the goal is to consider models using a minimum of parameters, in order to envisage the best possible amounts of payments of future disasters. We note the evolution of the amounts of payments of the cumulated real disasters obtained by<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x5.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x6.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>indicates the evolution of the cumulated real disasters indexed by the year of accident, i, and the time of development, t. We suppose that the increase in the disasters obtained <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x7.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is the sum of the disasters not sufficiently funded <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x8.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and of the disasters not declared yet claims<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x9.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. In the paper [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.56278-ref1">1</xref>] the following relations between C, N and D is proposed.</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56278-formula1470"><label>(1)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x10.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>We indicate <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x11.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for all the variables in the triangles D and N observed until the moment s.</p><p>To simulate the future claims, it is supposed that the not sufficiently funded claims<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x12.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, the stochastic differential equation of diffusion and the not yet incurred claims <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x13.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> are governed by the stochastic dif-</p><p>ferential equation of Black and Scholes with jump. This assumption on the probability density function of <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x14.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> ensures positivity and for <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x15.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> ensures the membership<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x16.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, contrary to what is proposed by Liu and Verrall [<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="scirp.56278-ref4">4</xref>] .</p><p>Conditionally with<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x17.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we simulate the distribution of <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x18.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> as solution of the following stochastic differential equation:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56278-formula1471"><label>(2)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x19.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x20.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is a standard Brownian motion on<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x20.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x21.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>; <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x20.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x21.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x22.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>is the Poisson process of intensity<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x20.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x21.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x22.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x23.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>; <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x20.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x21.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x22.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x23.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x24.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>is a Markov process at continuous time;<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x20.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x21.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x22.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x23.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x24.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x25.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>;<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x20.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x21.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x22.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x23.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x24.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x25.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x26.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>; verifying</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56278-formula1472"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x27.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x28.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is a positive constant.</p><p>Conditionally with<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x29.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, we suppose that the evolution of <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x29.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x30.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is governed by the following diffusion:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56278-formula1473"><label>(3)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x31.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x32.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is a standard Brownian motion on<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x32.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x33.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>; <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x32.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x33.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x34.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>is a Markov process at continuous time; <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x32.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x33.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x34.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x35.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x32.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x33.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x34.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x35.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x36.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> such that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x32.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x33.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x34.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x35.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x36.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x37.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x32.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x33.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x34.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x35.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x36.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x37.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x38.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. The process <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x32.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x33.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x34.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x35.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x36.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x37.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x38.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x39.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> is assumed to be a continuous time Markov process taking values in the set <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x32.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x33.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x34.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x35.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x36.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x37.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x38.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x39.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x40.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> The transition probabilities of this chain are denoted by <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x32.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x33.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x34.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x35.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x36.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x37.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x38.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x39.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x40.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x41.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and the transition rate matrix is <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x32.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x33.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x34.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x35.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x36.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x37.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x38.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x39.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x40.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x41.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x42.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> with</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56278-formula1474"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x43.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>For any state <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x44.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> consider priors <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x44.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x45.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x44.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x45.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x46.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> defined as follows</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56278-formula1475"><label>(4)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x47.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.56278-formula1476"><label>(5)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x48.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.56278-formula1477"><label>(6)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x49.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>where <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x50.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> denotes a Gamma distribution with shape parameter <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x50.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x51.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and scale parameter<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x50.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x51.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x52.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>.</p><p>Let us define the log-returns <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x53.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for the Equation (2) and <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x53.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x54.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> for the second Equation (3), <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x53.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x54.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x55.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula></p><p>Given a path <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x56.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> Let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x56.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x57.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> be the time spent by the path X in state j in the time interval<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x56.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x57.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x58.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Define</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56278-formula1478"><label>(7)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x59.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.56278-formula1479"><label>(8)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x60.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Then, conditional on the path X, the solutions of the Equations (2) and (3) are respectively given by :</p><p>・ the solution of the first Equation (2) is</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56278-formula1480"><label>(9)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x61.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>and,</p><p>・ <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x62.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>are i.i.d.<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x62.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x63.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x62.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x63.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x64.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>for the second Equation (3).</p></sec><sec id="s3"><title>3. Predicted Claims Reserves Variance</title><p>The main reason for using stochastic models is to estimate the error rate of prediction distributions. It is useful for solvency, capital modelling and measurement of risk. We begin by proving how the predicted error rate can be calculated. The predicted error rate is obtained from the predicted variance of the partial reserve of loss. We</p><p>remember that <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x65.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> the variables in triangles D and N observed until a time s. Let<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x65.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x66.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. The future claims IBNR and IBNER estimators are given respectively by<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x65.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x66.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x67.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x65.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x66.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x67.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x69.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x65.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x66.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x67.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x69.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x68.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x65.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x66.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x67.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x69.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x68.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x70.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>. Our objective is to predict the partial reserve. We denote</p><p>the partial reserve by:</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56278-formula1481"><label>(10)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x71.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x72.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>is its estimator.</p><p>The mean square error prediction of <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x73.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> can be written as follows</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56278-formula1482"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x74.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Theorem 3.1 Let <inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x75.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula> and<inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x75.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula><inline-formula><inline-graphic xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x76.png" xlink:type="simple"/></inline-formula>, respectively the future claims IBNR and IBNER of the i<sup>th</sup> contract, verifying Equations (2) and (3), then the mean square error prediction of partial reserve is</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56278-formula1483"><label>(11)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x77.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Proof. The mean square error prediction of the partial reserve can be written as follows</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56278-formula1484"><label>(12)</label><graphic position="anchor" xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x78.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Using the fact that</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56278-formula1485"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x79.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>and</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56278-formula1486"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x80.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>As a first step, we calculate</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56278-formula1487"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x81.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>We calculate the second term (12), taking into account</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56278-formula1488"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x82.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>and</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56278-formula1489"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x83.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><p>Then</p><disp-formula id="scirp.56278-formula1490"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x84.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula><disp-formula id="scirp.56278-formula1491"><graphic  xlink:href="http://html.scirp.org/file/9-1490324x85.png"  xlink:type="simple"/></disp-formula></sec><sec id="s4"><title>4. 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