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Actuarial Statistics
This paper aims at teaching the students to deal with asses risk in insurance and finance using statistical methods.
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STT324(B) |
Actuarial Statistics (Theory)
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The students will be able to –
CO66: Assess the suitability of actuarial, financial and economic models in solving actuarial problems. CO67: Analyze actuarial data using advanced statistical techniques. CO68: Calculate quantities such as premiums, reserves and superannuation contribution rates using actuarial techniques. CO69: Increase management skills for dealing with organizations, teams and policy issues; CO70: Expand their applied knowledge in various specialized areas of actuarial studies and statistics. |
Approach in teaching: Interactive Lectures, Group Discussion, Classroom Assignment Problem Solving Sessions
Learning activities for the students: Assignments Seminar Presentation Subject based Activities |
Classroom Quiz Assignments Class Test Individual Presentation |
Actuarial Science: Concept, scope, Introduction to insurance business, concept of risk, role of statistics in insurance. Risk models for short term: expected value principle, notation of utility risk model for short term
Survival Distribution: Future life time distribution and life table, future life time random variable, curate future life time, complete life table, assumption of fraction ages, force of mortality
Life Insurance: Actuarial present value benefit in life insurance product, compound interest, discount factor, benefit payable at the moment of death, relation between A and pure endowment. Sickness benefit, disability benefit, widows pension, benefit dependent on marriage
Annuity: introduction, life annuity: single payment, continuous life annuity, discrete life annuity, life annuity with monthly payments, commutation function, varying annuity recursion, complete annuity: immediate and apportionable annuities- due
Multiple decrement tables, force of decrement, construction of decrement table. Premium: continuous and discrete premium, true monthly payment premium, apportionable premium, commutation functions, accumulation type benefits.
- Dickson, C.M.D. (2005): Insurance Risk and Ruin(International Series On Acturial Science), Cambridge University Press
- Bowers, N.L., Gerber, H.U., Hickman, J.C., Jones, D.A., Nesbitt, C.J.(1997): Actuarial Mathematics, Society of Actuaries, Itasca, Illinois, U.S.A.
- Atkinson, M.E. & Dickson, D.C.M. (2011). An Introduction to Actuarial Studies, Elgar Publ, second edition.
- Daykin, C.D, Pentikainen, T & Pesonen, M. (1994). Practical Risk Theory for Actuaries, Chapman & Hall.
