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Deduplication is an essential part of data preparation for statistical modelling. The phenomenon of multiple policies per person is a major issue for annuity portfolios, and arises from life companies' policy-orientated view of the world.
Deduplication and annuities
Deduplication is an important step in data preparation for mortality modelling (or any other kind of modelling for that matter). If people in your data set have multiple benefit records, then the crucial independence assumption for statistical modelling in invalidated.