Actuarial Statistics

Paper Code: 
STT-324(b)
Credits: 
5
Contact Hours: 
75.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

This paper aims at teaching the students to deal with asses risk in insurance and finance using statistical methods.

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Unit I: 
UNIT I

Acturial 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.

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Unit II: 
UNIT II

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.

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Unit III: 
UNIT III

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.

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Unit IV: 
UNIT IV

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.

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Unit V: 
UNIT V

Multiple decrement table, force of decrement, construction of decrement table. Premium: continuous and discrete premium, true monthly payment premium, apportionable premium, commutation functions, accumulation type benefits.

Essential Readings: 

1. Dickson, C.M.D. (2005): Insurance Risk and Ruin(International Series On Acturial Science), Cambridge University Press

2. 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.

3. Atkinson, M.E. & Dickson, D.C.M. (2000). An Introduction to Actuarial Studies, Elgar Publ.

4. Daykin, C.D, Pentikainen, T & Pesonen, M. (1994). Practical Risk Theory for Actuaries, Chapman & Hall.

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