UPDATE 2020: skimr v2 now produces nice html in rmarkdown, so skimr::kable() has been deprecated. https://www.r-bloggers.com/reintroducing-skimr-v2-a-year-in-the-life-of-an-open-source-r-project/
Introduction Ratemaking models in insurance routinely use Poisson regression to model the frequency of auto insurance claims. They usually are GLMs but some insurers are moving towards GBMs, such as xgboost.
xgboosthas multiple hyperparameters that can be tuned to obtain a better predictive power. There are multiple ways to tune these hyperparameters. In order of efficiency are the grid search, the random search and the bayesian optimization search.
