ChainLadder is an R package providing methods and models which are typically used in insurance claims reserving, including:

• Mack chain-ladder, Munich chain-ladder and Bootstrap models
• General multivariate chain ladder-models
• Loss development factor fitting and Cape Cod models
• Generalized linear models
• One year claims development result functions
• Utility functions to:
  • convert tables into triangles and triangles into tables
  • convert cumulative into incremental and incremental into cumulative triangles
  • visualise triangles

David Hindley has created a Shiny App, which provides and interface to many of the ChainLadder package functions to accompany his book on Claims Reserving in General Insurance.

You can install the stable version from CRAN:

install.packages('ChainLadder', dependencies = TRUE)

To install the current development version from github you need the devtools package and the other packages on which ChainLadder depends and links to:

install.packages(c("actuar", "cplm", "grid", "ggplot2", "knitr", "lattice", "Matrix", "MASS", "reshape2", "rmarkdown", "RUnit", "systemfit",  "statmod", "tweedie"))

To install ChainLadder run:

library(devtools)
install_github("mages/ChainLadder")

library(ChainLadder)
?ChainLadder
demo(ChainLadder)

See the ChainLadder package vignette for more details.

To cite package 'ChainLadder' in publications see the output of:

citation(package="ChainLadder")

See also:

Markus Gesmann. Claims Reserving and IBNR. Computational Actuarial Science with R. 2014. Chapman and Hall/CRC

This package is free and open source software, licensed under GPL.

ChainLadder documentation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.