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ACSC 406 - STATISTICAL MODELING II

Credits: Three
Prerequisite: ACSC 405
This course covers the materials on the professional actuarial exam C. Topic includes Construction of Empirical Models, Estimate failure time and loss distributions using Kaplan-Meier estimator, including approximations for large data sets, Nelson- Aalen estimator. Kernel density estimators, Estimate the variance of estimators and confidence intervals for failure time and loss distributions, Estimate failure time and loss distributions with the Cox proportional hazards model and other basic models with covariates. The course will also cover the topics, Unbiasedness, Consistency, Mean squared error, Estimate the parameters of “failure time and loss distributions using, Maximum likelihood, Method of moments, Percentile matching, Bayesian procedures, Estimate the parameters of failure time and loss distributions with censored and/or truncated data.
Cross-listed: See MATH 406
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