Delta Boosting Machines with Application to General Insurance


xhan - Posted on 13 February 2017

Project Description: 

We developed a new boosting model called Delta Boosting Machines to further improve the prediction capability of boosting technique. We have completed the math development of the model and prepare to start a simulation study to compare our model's performance with other known boosting models. The data set will be from an insurance company.

Researcher name: 
Xixuan Han
Researcher position: 
PhD Student
Researcher department: 
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science
Researcher email: 
Research Project Details
Project Duration: 
10/2016 - 10/2017
Project Significance: 
The project will help us measure the performance of Delta Boosting Machines in real data sets from the industry.