An article in Financial Markets Institutions and Instruments [Pricing Reinsurance Contracts on FDIC Losses (2008, Vol. 17(3)]

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An article in Financial Markets Institutions and Instruments [“Pricing Reinsurance Contracts on FDIC Losses” (2008, Vol. 17(3)] modeled average annual losses (in billions of dollars) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) with a Weibull distribution with parameters δ = 1.9317 and β = 0.8472. Determine the following:

(a) Probability of a loss greater than $2 billion

(b) Probability of a loss between $2 and $4 billion

(c) Value exceeded with probability 0.05

(d) Mean and standard deviation of loss

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Applied Statistics And Probability For Engineers

ISBN: 9781118539712

6th Edition

Authors: Douglas C. Montgomery, George C. Runger

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