summary.ata {ChainLadder}

Summary method for object of class 'ata'

Description

Summarize the age-to-age factors resulting from a call to the ata function.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'ata'
summary(object, digits=3, ...)

Arguments

object

object resulting from a call to ata

digits

integer indicating the number of decimal places for rounding the factors. The default is 3. NULL indicates that rounding should take place.

...

not used

Details

A call to ata produces a matrix of age-to-age factors with two attributes – the simple and volume weighted averages. summary.ata creates a new matrix with the averages appended as rows at the bottom.

Value

A matrix.

Author(s)

Dan Murphy

See Also

See also ata and print.ata

Examples

y <- ata(RAA)
summary(y, digits=4)