Lower Convex Order Bound Approximations for Sums of Log-Skew Normal Random Variables
Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, Forthcoming
18 Pages Posted: 15 Feb 2009 Last revised: 24 Feb 2011
Date Written: September 3, 2008
Abstract
When it comes to modeling dependent random variables, not surprisingly, the multivariate normal distribution has received the most attention because of its many appealing properties. However, when it comes to practical implementation, the same family of distribution is often rejected for modeling nancial and insurance data because they do not apparently behave in the multivariate normal sense. In this paper, we consider the construction of lower convex order bounds, in the sense of Kaas et al. (2000), to approximate sums of dependent log-skew normal random variables. The dependence structure of these random variables is based on the class of multivariate closed skew-normal (CSN) distribution that appears in Gonzalez-Farias et al. (2004b) and which carries several interesting properties of the normal distribution apart from allowing additional parameters to regulate skewness. The bounds that we present in this paper are therefore natural extensions to the results presented in Dhaene et al. (2002b) and Dhaene et al. (2002a), where bounds for sums of log-normal random variables have been derived. These lower bound approximations are constructed based on the additional information provided by a conditioning variable which when optimally chosen can provide an accurate approximation. We exploit inherent properties of this family of skew-normal distributions in order to choose the optimal conditioning variable. Results of our simulations provide an indication of the performance of these approximations.
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