PT Journal AU URBANIKOVA, M TI STOCHASTIC METHODS IN INSURANCE SO Trends in education PY 2009 BP 235 EP 238 VL 2 IS 1 DE Insurance; Probability distributions; amount of claimsl. AB The contribution deals with the possibility of using the stochastic methods in insurance. The models are based on the probability distribution of a random variable representing the amount of claims. Particularly, Log-normal, Gama, Beta, Paret and compound Poisson distributions are used. These models allow for an effective calculation of a risk premium. ER