Benktander type II distribution

The Benktander type II distribution, also called the Benktander distribution of the second kind, is one of two distributions introduced by Gunnar Benktander (1970) to model heavy-tailed losses commonly found in non-life/casualty actuarial science, using various forms of mean excess functions (Benktander & Segerdahl 1960). This distribution is "close" to the Weibull distribution (Kleiber & Kotz 2003).

Benktander type II distribution
Probability density function
Cumulative distribution function
Parameters	$a>0$ (real) $0<b\leq 1$ (real)
Support	$x\geq 1$
PDF	$e^{{\frac {a}{b}}(1-x^{b})}x^{b-2}\left(ax^{b}-b+1\right)$
CDF	$1-x^{b-1}e^{{\frac {a}{b}}(1-x^{b})}$
Mean	$1+{\frac {1}{a}}$
Median	${\begin{cases}{\frac {\log(2)}{a}}+1&{\text{if}}\ b=1\\\left(\left({\frac {1-b}{a}}\right)\mathbf {W} \left({\frac {2^{\frac {b}{1-b}}ae^{\frac {a}{1-b}}}{1-b}}\right)\right)^{\tfrac {1}{b}}&{\text{otherwise}}\ \end{cases}}$ Where $\mathbf {W} (x)$ is the Lambert W function[note 1]
Mode	$1$
Variance	${\frac {-b+2ae^{\frac {a}{b}}\mathbf {E} _{1-{\frac {1}{b}}}\left({\frac {a}{b}}\right)}{a^{2}b}}$ Where $\mathbf {E} _{n}(x)$ is the generalized Exponential integral[note 1]

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References

Kleiber, Christian; Kotz, Samuel (2003). "7.4 Benktander Distributions". Statistical Size Distributions in Economics and Actuarial Science. Wiley Series and Probability and Statistics. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 247–250. ISBN 9780471457169.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Benktander, Gunnar; Segerdahl, Carl-Otto (1960). "On the Analytical Representation of Claim Distributions with Special Reference to Excess of Loss Reinsurance". Proceedings of the XVIth International Congress of Actuaries, Brussels, 1960: 626–646.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
Benktander, Gunnar (1970). "Schadenverteilungen nach Grösse in der Nicht-Lebensversicherung" [Loss Distributions by Size in Non-life Insurance]. Bulletin of the Swiss Association of Actuaries (in German): 263–283.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Probability distributions (List)
Discrete univariate with finite support	Benford Bernoulli beta-binomial binomial categorical hypergeometric Poisson binomial Rademacher soliton discrete uniform Zipf Zipf–Mandelbrot
Discrete univariate with infinite support	beta negative binomial Borel Conway–Maxwell–Poisson discrete phase-type Delaporte extended negative binomial Flory–Schulz Gauss–Kuzmin geometric logarithmic negative binomial Panjer parabolic fractal Poisson Skellam Yule–Simon zeta
Continuous univariate supported on a bounded interval	arcsine ARGUS Balding–Nichols Bates beta beta rectangular continuous Bernoulli Irwin–Hall Kumaraswamy logit-normal noncentral beta PERT raised cosine reciprocal triangular U-quadratic uniform Wigner semicircle
Continuous univariate supported on a semi-infinite interval	Benini Benktander 1st kind Benktander 2nd kind beta prime Burr chi-squared chi Dagum Davis exponential-logarithmic Erlang exponential F folded normal Fréchet gamma gamma/Gompertz generalized gamma generalized inverse Gaussian Gompertz half-logistic half-normal Hotelling's T-squared hyper-Erlang hyperexponential hypoexponential inverse chi-squared scaled inverse chi-squared inverse Gaussian inverse gamma Kolmogorov Lévy log-Cauchy log-Laplace log-logistic log-normal Lomax matrix-exponential Maxwell–Boltzmann Maxwell–Jüttner Mittag-Leffler Nakagami noncentral chi-squared noncentral F Pareto phase-type poly-Weibull Rayleigh relativistic Breit–Wigner Rice shifted Gompertz truncated normal type-2 Gumbel Weibull discrete Weibull Wilks's lambda
Continuous univariate supported on the whole real line	Cauchy exponential power Fisher's z Gaussian q generalized normal generalized hyperbolic geometric stable Gumbel Holtsmark hyperbolic secant Johnson's S_U Landau Laplace asymmetric Laplace logistic noncentral t normal (Gaussian) normal-inverse Gaussian skew normal slash stable Student's t type-1 Gumbel Tracy–Widom variance-gamma Voigt
Continuous univariate with support whose type varies	generalized chi-squared generalized extreme value generalized Pareto Marchenko–Pastur q-exponential q-Gaussian q-Weibull shifted log-logistic Tukey lambda
Mixed continuous-discrete univariate	rectified Gaussian
Multivariate (joint)	Discrete Ewens multinomial Dirichlet-multinomial negative multinomial Continuous Dirichlet generalized Dirichlet multivariate Laplace multivariate normal multivariate stable multivariate t normal-inverse-gamma normal-gamma Matrix-valued inverse matrix gamma inverse-Wishart matrix normal matrix t matrix gamma normal-inverse-Wishart normal-Wishart Wishart
Directional	Univariate (circular) directional Circular uniform univariate von Mises wrapped normal wrapped Cauchy wrapped exponential wrapped asymmetric Laplace wrapped Lévy Bivariate (spherical) Kent Bivariate (toroidal) bivariate von Mises Multivariate von Mises–Fisher Bingham
Degenerate and singular	Degenerate Dirac delta function Singular Cantor
Families	Circular compound Poisson elliptical exponential natural exponential location–scale maximum entropy mixture Pearson Tweedie wrapped

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Benktander type II distribution

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