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title: 'healthsim: Simulate Synthetic Health Insurance Portfolios and Panels'
version: 0.1.0
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.23727238
abstract: Generates synthetic South African health insurance data with a known data-generating
  process, for teaching and testing pricing models. One function simulates a cross-sectional
  portfolio of principal members with negative binomial claim counts and a lognormal-Pareto
  severity mixture. Another simulates a multi-year open-cohort panel with ageing,
  smoking cessation, wearable activity and sleep data joined by a Clayton copula,
  claims inflation, annual benefit limits, lapses and deaths. Every parameter can
  be changed, and the true expected frequency and severity are available for checking
  fitted models.
authors:
- family-names: Mdingi
  given-names: Sbusiso
  email: sbusiso@mdingi.co.za
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-4417-968X
preferred-citation:
  type: manual
  title: 'healthsim: Simulate Synthetic Health Insurance Portfolios and Panels'
  authors:
  - family-names: Mdingi
    given-names: Sbusiso
    orcid: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-4417-968X
    email: sbusiso@mdingi.co.za
  year: '2026'
  notes: R package version 0.1.0
  url: https://github.com/Sbusiso-Mdingi/healthsim
  doi: 10.5281/zenodo.23727238
repository: https://cran.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/Sbusiso-Mdingi/healthsim
commit: 4ce9eecaf99efe599912a27e122b0a93f6f22001
url: https://www.kaggle.com/sbusisomdingiayesbu
date-released: '2026-11-13'
contact:
- family-names: Mdingi
  given-names: Sbusiso
  email: sbusiso@mdingi.co.za
  orcid: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-4417-968X