UEH Standard Programs

Brief Course Description

1. Course Title:

Actuarial Data and Analysis

2. Language of Instruction:

Tiếng Việt

3. Course Code:

MAT508069

4. Credits:

3

5. Course Objectives:

The Actuarial Data Analysis course aims to achieve the following objectives: - Provide important concepts in statistical machine learning, with knowledge of supervised and unsupervised techniques; - Compare and use basic supervised and unsupervised techniques; - Provide methods for using statistical machine learning packages in R and Python software; - Use basic algorithms of statistical machine learning methods and related software to solve research problems in insurance and financial data.

6. Brief Description of Course Content:

Actuarial data and analysis subject presents statistical learning and its application to analyze financial, mortality, health or insurance data. The analysis results will help managers to evaluate insurance premium, quantify risk level and make better decision. The statistical learning algorithms covered in this subject include regression, classification, re-sampling, decision tree, SVM, clustering and some other supervised and unsupervised techniques. This subject also introduces criteria for model selection.