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An insurance company supposes that each person has an accident parameter and that the yearly number of accidents of someone whose accident parameter is λ is Poisson distributed with mean λ. They also suppose that the parameter value of a newly insured person can be assumed to be the value of a gamma random variable with parameters s and α. If a newly insured person has n accidents in her first year, find the conditional density of her accident parameter. Also, determine the expected number of accidents that she will have in the following year.

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Conditional density:

fλ∣N(l∣n)=asn!·pn·Γ(s)ln+s-1e-l(α+1)

Expected number of accidents:

E(λ∣N=n)=n+sα+1

Step by step solution

01

Given information 

The accident parameter is λis Poisson distributed with mean λ.

λis a random variable with distributed Gamma (s,α).

The newly insured person has n accidents in her first year.

02

Explanation

Let N be the random variable that marks the number of accidents of some person in a certain year.

According to the statement, the density function of λ,

fλ(l)=αsΓ(s)ls-1e-αl

Now, with N = n

We need o find the conditional density of λ.

Then using the Bayesian formula,

fλ∣N(l∣n)=P(N=n∣λ=l)fλ(l)P(N=n)

Now define

P(N=n)=pn

we have

P(N=n∣λ=l)fλ(l)P(N=n)=1pn·lnn!e-l·αsΓ(s)ls-1e-αl

such that

localid="1647241920552" fλ∣N(l∣n)=asn!·pn·Γ(s)ln+s-1e-l(α+1)

with parameters n+sandα+1,

λ/N=nhas Gamma distribution.

Moreover, the expected number of accidents that she will have in the following year,

localid="1647241966218" E(λ∣N=n)=n+sα+1

Where the formula for the expected value of gamma distribution has been used.

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