Actuarial statistics
Actuarial Statistics is an area of actuarial science that uses your statistical and analytical skills to solve business problems. Actuarial Statistics aims to strengthen your data visualization and analysis capabilities to help you sort an issue faster.
Actuarial Statistics (CS1) provides a grounding in mathematical and statistical methods that are of relevance for actuarial work. It equips the student with knowledge of statistical distributions, methods to summarise data, the principles of statistical inference, regression models (including generalised linear models) and the fundamental concepts of Bayesian statistics. The subject includes both theory and application of the ideas using R.
CS1A is 3 hours and 20 minutes exam, CS1B is 1 hour and 50 minutes computer-based exam, R. Scientific Calculator is allowed in exam.
In the CS subjects, the approximate split of assessment across the three skill types is 20% Knowledge, 65% Application and 15% Higher Order skills.