Insurance Claim Prediction Using Unbiased Confidence Guarantees
摘要
Impressive advances in the modern insurance industry incorporate data-driven methods to predict insurance claims to optimize the premium setting. In recent literature, many studies examine the use of Machine Learning techniques as the most promising approach to predict insurance claims. However, such techniques do not quantify the uncertainty involved in predictions, especially in heavily imbalanced datasets where the underlying classifiers are biased towards the majority class. In this work, we propose a novel machine learning framework called Conformal Prediction, combined with several classifiers -namely, Logistic Regression, XGBoost and CatBoost - that provides valid confidence guarantees for both claimants and non-claimants individually. We examine its performance in a large-scale imbalanced dataset comprising 100,000 drivers where 95.73% have not reported a claim. Our experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach produces empirically valid and unbiased outputs, with XGBoost emerging as the best-performing classifier in this context.