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 Probability and Statistics for Actuaries - ACTL5101
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Contact: Valdez,Emiliano.A.
 
 
Campus: Kensington Campus
 
 
Career: Postgraduate
 
 
Units of Credit: 6
 
 
Contact Hours per Week: 3
 
 
Offered: Semester 1 2005
 
 
Fee Band: 2
 
  

Description

This course covers probability and statistics topics relevant to actuarial studies with applications in insurance and related areas. Topics covered include probability generating functions, moment generating functions, marginal and conditional distributions, independence and convolution, conditional expectation and compound distributions, sampling distributions, estimation methods, hypothesis tests, regression and analysis of variance.

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