How to Handle the Exposure Offset with Boosted Trees

Three ways to move from GLM/GAM to a GBM model in insurance.

Mate Pocs
Towards Data Science
13 min readAug 28, 2021

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A common task during claim frequency modelling in an insurance setting is handling the different levels of exposure. Exposure is a broad term, Insurancepedia defines it as “susceptibility to losses or risks”, but in our example, it will be analogous with time.

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