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STAT40680

Academic Year 2024/2025
This module covers part of the syllabus for the professional examination, Models (CS2), of the Faculty and Institute of Actuaries (UK) and is twinned with the module, Models - Survival Models. The module treats the principles behind, and key characteristics, of stochastic models in actuarial applications. Topics treated include: introduction to stochastic modelling; conditional expectation and conditional distribution, martingales, random walks, Markov chains with actuarial applications, continuous time Markov processes, Brownian motion with applications to mathematical finance, Poisson processes.

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Mr Matt Nagle Tutor