healthsim: Simulate Synthetic Health Insurance Portfolios and Panels

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.

Version:	0.1.0
Depends:	R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports:	stats
Suggests:	testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published:	2026-11-13
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.healthsim
Author:	Sbusiso Mdingi [aut, cre, cph]
Maintainer:	Sbusiso Mdingi <sbusiso at mdingi.co.za>
BugReports:	https://github.com/Sbusiso-Mdingi/healthsim/issues
License:	MIT + file LICENSE
URL:	https://github.com/Sbusiso-Mdingi/healthsim, https://www.kaggle.com/sbusisomdingiayesbu
NeedsCompilation:	no
Citation:	healthsim citation info
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	healthsim results

Documentation:

Reference manual:

healthsim.html , healthsim.pdf

Downloads:

Package source:	healthsim_0.1.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: healthsim_0.1.0.zip, r-release: healthsim_0.1.0.zip, r-oldrel: healthsim_0.1.0.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): healthsim_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): healthsim_0.1.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): healthsim_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): healthsim_0.1.0.tgz

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