The estimation of the holding periods of financial products has to be done in a dynamic process in which the size of the observation time interval influences the result. Small intervals will produce smaller average holding periods than bigger ones. The approach developed in this paper offers the...

In this paper, we studied estimators based on an interval shrinkage with equal weights point shrinkage estimators for all individual target points ¯θ ∈ (θ0,θ1) for exponentially distributed observations in the presence of outliers drawn from a uniform distribution. Estimators obtained from...

Numerous robust estimators exist as alternatives to the maximum likelihood estimator (MLE) when a completely observed ground-up loss severity sample dataset is available. However, the options for robust alternatives to a MLE become significantly limited when dealing with grouped loss severity...