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306542 (v.2) Principles of Actuarial Science 101


Area: Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Credits: 25.0
Contact Hours: 5.0
 
** 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. **
 
Lecture: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Workshop: 1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Seminar: 1 x 2 Hours Fortnightly
 
Syllabus: Introduction to Maple as a symbolic tool in algebraic manipulation - its use in approximation, graphical presentation, and solution of linear systems. Use of Microsoft Excel in performing the following statistical procedures - exploratory data analysis, simulation of sampling distributions. Test of hypotheses and confidence interval for mean, variance, inference for proportions. Tests for independence and homogeneity, simple and multiple regression analysis. Integral transformation theorem and its use insimulation of random samples for different distributions. Goodness-of-fit tests for assessing appropriate models such as binomial, poisson, exponential normal, lognormal, and important life-time distributions. Introduction to Visual Basic programming and its applications in statistical analysis.
 
** To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement. **
 
Field of Education: 081103 Insurance and Actuarial Studies
Funding Cluster: 02 - Accounting, Administration, Economics, Commerce
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Not Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2005 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

 
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