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Courses Handbook 2012

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2012.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2011.

309806 (v.1) Life Contingencies 502

Note

Tuition Patterns

The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.

Unit references, texts and outcomes

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Area: Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 4.0
Lecture: 1 x 3 Hours Weekly
Tutorial: 1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Prerequisite(s): 309805 (v.1) Life Contingencies 501 or any previous version
Syllabus: Benefit reserves: fully continuous and discrete benefit reserves, analysis of benefit reserves, benefit reserves at fractional durations, allocation of the risk to insurance years and Hattendorf's theorem. Multiple life functions: joint-life status and last-survivor status, dependent life models, insurance and annuity benefits and special mortality assumptions. Multiple decrement models: random and deterministic survivorship groups, multi-life models and multiple decrement models.
Field of Education: 010101 Mathematics
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2012 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External