Prerequisites: MET MA 581 OR CAS MA 581 - Topics covered include interval estimation. Point estimation including sufficiency, Rao-Blackwell theorem, completeness, uniqueness, Rao-Cramer inequality, and maximum likelihood estimation. Tests of hypothesis: uniformly most powerful tests, uniformly most powerful unbiased tests, likelihood ratio test, chi-squared test, comparison of means and variances, ANOVA, regression, and some nonparametric tests. The material covered in this course may help you obtain VEE credit for the “Actuarial Statistic” VEE from the SoA/CAS.

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