In this paper we develop several composite Weibull-Pareto models and suggest their use to model loss payments and other forms of actuarial data. These models all comprise a Weibull distribution up to a threshold point, and some form of Pareto distribution thereafter. They are similar in spirit to some composite lognormal-Pareto models that have previously been considered in the literature. All of these models are applied, and their performance compared, in the context of a realworld fire insurance data set.
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