{
  "id": 736,
  "title": "claim amount ",
  "url": "/competitions/ClaimPredictionChallenge/discussion/736",
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  "post_date": "2011-07-26T09:03:39.150Z",
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  "content": "<div class=\"x_x_posticons\">hi ,</div>\r\n<p>do we need to predict values for cases where claim amounts equals to zero since generally we do not consider zero values for severity modeling?</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>",
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      "id": "4745",
      "postDate": "07/26/2011 09:03:39",
      "content": "<div class=\"x_x_posticons\">hi ,</div>\r\n<p>do we need to predict values for cases where claim amounts equals to zero since generally we do not consider zero values for severity modeling?</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>",
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      "id": "4747",
      "postDate": "07/26/2011 12:36:32",
      "content": "<p>[quote=deepak;4745]</p>\r\n<p>hi ,</p>\r\n<p>do we need to predict values for cases where claim amounts equals to zero?</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;[/quote]</p>\r\n<p>No, but figuring out which vehicles have claim amounts is zero is the hard part. Furthermore, in this competition, you only need to predict the claim amount.</p>\r\n<p>Does that help?</p>",
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      "id": 4747,
      "author_name": "jeffmoser",
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      "post_date": "07/26/2011 12:36:32",
      "content": "<p>[quote=deepak;4745]</p>\r\n<p>hi ,</p>\r\n<p>do we need to predict values for cases where claim amounts equals to zero?</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;[/quote]</p>\r\n<p>No, but figuring out which vehicles have claim amounts is zero is the hard part. Furthermore, in this competition, you only need to predict the claim amount.</p>\r\n<p>Does that help?</p>",
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