A note on compound generalized distributions

Abstract

Abstract Distributions like Poisson, binomial, negative binomial or logarithmic behave well as claim number distribution in collective models. Besides, using these claim number distributions, the total claim probabilities can easily be evaluated recursively with the so-called Panjer recursion. This note shows that other recursions can be derived starting with claim number distributions from the class of modified power series distributions which also incorporates generalized Poisson, generalized negative binomial and the ones mentioned above. In addition it is shown that Panjer's recursion can be derived as a special case.