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Uncertainty quantification and model validation for actuarial and quantitative risk
Uncertainty quantification identifies and propagates uncertainty in data, parameters, model structure and assumptions. On this platform it shows how wide plausible outcomes are for premiums, reserves and capital, and which assumptions matter most.
What uncertainty quantification and model validation does here.
Uncertainty quantification and model validation characterise how uncertainty in inputs, parameters and model structure affects predictions. They establish how much confidence a model’s outputs deserve. In insurance and catastrophe, methods and modelling and capital markets and investment, uncertainty quantification shows where risk estimates are robust and where they are fragile. It guides where better data or models would change decisions. The canonical description is onthe STEM Commons.
Reserve ranges
Bootstrap and Bayesian methods produce distributions of reserve outcomes around the central estimate, showing the range that could emerge.
Parameter and model uncertainty
Parameter uncertaintyis separated from the uncertainty of choosing one model over another, and both are carried into capital estimates.
Sensitivity ranking
Inputs are varied to rank which assumptions drive results most, guiding where better data or review would add most value.
03Loss model
Loss exceedance, average annual loss and probable maximum loss.
The loss a portfolio in the footprint can expect per year and at the 1 in 100 and 1 in 250 levels that insurers and lenders price, from the same three blocks everycatastrophe modeluses. Teaching model with stated illustrative values, not a prediction.
Kontrol
Typical annual hazard intensity (location)
1.00 intensity index
Belavbûna nirxên tund (pîvan)
0.80 intensity index
Tundiya ku nîvê nirxê tê de winda dibe
4.00 intensity index
Belavbûna lawazî
0.55
Para nirxê di nav şopa metirsî de
40%
Standarda parastinê (heyama vegerê)
50 sal
Xwendin
Windahiya salane ya navînî
0.51% of value
Windahî di 1 ji 100 salan de
24.5% of value
Windahî di 1 ji 250 salan de
28.4% of value
Tundî di 1 ji 100 salan de
4.68 intensity index
Jimar, rêbaz û çavkanî
Heyama vegerê (sal)
Intensity (intensity index)
Windahî (% ya nirxê)
1
0.09
0.00
2
1.27
0.00
4
1.91
0.00
7
2.47
0.00
13
3.00
0.00
24
3.51
0.00
44
4.02
0.00
82
4.53
23.55
154
5.03
26.44
287
5.53
28.87
536
6.03
30.88
1,000
6.53
32.53
Rêbaz
Metirsî: nirxên dawîn ên Gumbel Gumbel (1958), Statistics of Extremes, Columbia University Press
Qada îhtîmala derbasbûnê û windahiya salane ya navînî Grossi and Kunreuther (2005), Catastrophe Modeling, Springer
Bandora bendavê Di Baldassarre and others (2013), Socio-hydrology, HESS 17
Pankeya nediyarîyê (Monte Carlo ya parametreyan) Spiegelhalter, Pearson and Short (2011), Visualising uncertainty about the future, Science 333
Hesasiyeta yek-yek (tornado) Saltelli and others (2008), Global Sensitivity Analysis: The Primer, Wiley
Dane
The model runs on the teaching values set by the controls. To calibrate it for a place, read it against these admitted layers and series, which this page’s map can draw:
Rêjeya baranê, nîv saeta dawîn (IMERG) NASA GPM IMERG Early · register nasa.gibs.context-live-layers
Pêşbînî: herikîna çemê, 30 roj bi navber (GloFAS bi riya Open-Meteo) Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0), Copernicus GloFAS · register open-meteo.public-pages
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Loss exceedance, average annual loss and probable maximum loss. Illustrative teaching model: it runs on the values set by the controls, not on measured data. Methods: Gumbel extreme-value hazard (Gumbel (1958), Statistics of Extremes, Columbia University Press); Lognormal fragility (vulnerability) (FEMA (2003), HAZUS-MH Technical Manual); Exceedance-probability curve and average annual loss (Grossi and Kunreuther (2005), Catastrophe Modeling, Springer).
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Datasets and records used by uncertainty quantification and model validation on this platform, with the role each plays and the label its values carry. Sources are listed inthe source register.
Dane
Rol
Nîşan
Model inputs and parameters
Input uncertainty
TEXMÎNKIRÎ
Alternative models
Structural uncertainty
MODELKIRÎ
Historical outcomes
Calibration of ranges
ÇAVDÊRÎKIRÎ
05Exposure, loss and capital
What it means for exposure, loss and capital.
The exposure, loss, scenario and capital views a risk officer, supervisor or ministry of finance would ask for, with the frameworks they report against. Structures follow supervisory and actuarial practice. Values are illustrative: never prices, ratings or advice.
Exposure and loss at return periods
How losses from uncertainty quantification and model validation for actuarial and quantitative risk grow with severity, gross and net of reinsurance, against capital.
Return period
Annual probability
Gross loss
Net loss
Net, capital = 100
1 in 10
0.10
14
10
10
1 in 50
0.02
33
21
21
1 in 100
0.01
46
27
27
1 in 250
0.004
68
39
39
Windahiya salane ya navînî
3.1
2.2
2.2
Illustrative loss index for a example portfolio (capital = 100): the exceedance-probability form insurers and supervisors read. Not data on any institution, not a price or a rating.
NGFS climate scenarios · Network for Greening the Financial SystemIFRS S2 Climate-related Disclosures · ISSBTCFD recommendations · Financial Stability Board TCFDPrinciples for the effective management of climate-related financial risks · Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
06Erêkirin
How results are checked.
Predictive distributions are tested for calibration and sharpness against held-out observations. Verification confirms that code solves the intended equations.
Kontrol bikin
How it is done
Range calibration
Stated ranges are compared with outcomes where possible
Dependence of inputs
Correlations between uncertain inputs are documented
Clear communication
Uncertainty is presented with each result
Structural uncertainty and unknown unknowns are difficult to represent. Computational cost limits exploration of high-dimensional models.
Zanista pergalan û modelkirinstewards uncertainty quantification and model validation for the Consortium and reviews how it is applied across platforms.
What are the limits of uncertainty quantification and model validation in this field?
Structural uncertainty and unknown unknowns are difficult to represent. Computational cost limits exploration of high-dimensional models.
How are results checked?
Predictive distributions are tested for calibration and sharpness against held-out observations. Verification confirms that code solves the intended equations.
Are the values on this page real?
The data names, roles and checks are real descriptions of practice. The canvas shows a design of the method’s use, not a run; no result is reported here.
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