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The aim of the subject is to give a grounding in survival models and their applications. The is a focus on human mortality and actuarial applications. This module covers part of the core syllabus of the Actuarial Profession's Subject CS2 [Risk Modelling and Survival Analysis]. The material covered includes the mathematics of survival models, estimation of lifetime distributions (e.g., Kaplan-Meier and Nelson-Aalen estimators), Binomial and Poisson mortality models, graduation of crude rates and goodness-of-fit of derived models, methods of projecting mortality rates and the Cox model. There is no choice of questions in the examination.
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| Mr Damian Conway | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
| Dr Vasiliki Dimitrakopoulou | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
| Uche Mbaka | Tutor |
| Keru Wang | Tutor |