R: Manipulation of Individual Claim Amounts

severity {actuar} | R Documentation

## Manipulation of Individual Claim Amounts

### Description

`severity` is a generic function created to manipulate individual claim amounts. The function invokes particular methods which depend on the `class` of the first argument.

### Usage

    severity(x, ...)

    ## Default S3 method:
    severity(x, bycol = FALSE, drop = TRUE, ...)

### Arguments

`x` | an R object.
`bycol` | logical; whether to “unroll” horizontally (`FALSE`) or vertically (`TRUE`)
`...` | further arguments to be passed to or from other methods.
`drop` | logical; if `TRUE`, the result is coerced to the lowest possible dimension.

### Details

Currently, the default method is equivalent to `unroll`. This is liable to change since the link between the name and the use of the function is rather weak.

### Value

A vector or matrix.

### Author(s)

Vincent Goulet vincent.goulet@act.ulaval.ca and Louis-Philippe Pouliot

### See Also

`severity.portfolio` for the original motivation of these functions.

### Examples

    x <- list(c(1:3), c(1:8), c(1:4), c(1:3))
    (mat <- matrix(x, 2, 2))
    severity(mat)
    severity(mat, bycol = TRUE)

[Package actuar version 3.0-0 Index]