Bening V.E.

The paper considers the asymptotic behaviour of the distribution functions of the statistics based on the samples with random sizes in the testing problems conserning univariate parameters. An asymptotic comparison of the tests is carried out in terms of the necessary additional number of such factors (asymptotic deficiency). Two examples illustrating the obtained results are presented. These examples concern truncated Poisson and binomial distributions are considered.

The paper studies the asymptotic behaviour of the mean total reserve of an insurance company in the case of a random number of clients. We use results on asymptotic deficiency and relative efficiency of procedures based on samples of fixed and random sizes. Zero-truncated Delaporte and generalized Poisson distributions are considered as models for the random number of clients. Asymptotic expansions of inverse moments are obtained for these distributions and the coefficients in the asymptotic formulas are computed. It is shown that the asymptotic deficiency of the scheme with a random number of clients can be expressed in terms of distribution parameters and in particular cases equals 1 and (1−θ)⁻². An empirical illustration is given based on data from the U.S. National Flood Insurance Program.