ACTSC 433Analysis of Survival Data
- Faculty
- Mathematics
- Last listed
- Spring 2020
No longer offered. It was in Waterloo’s course catalog since at least Winter 2020 (as far back as Open Data goes) to Spring 2020 and last ran in Winter 2020. It isn’t in the 2024–25 or later calendars.
When it ran
- W20
Ran in 1 term, Winter 2020 to Winter 2020.
The mathematics of survival models, some examples of parametric survival models. Tabular survival models, estimates from complete and incomplete data samples. Parametric survival models, determining the optimal parameters. Maximum likelihood estimators, derivation, and properties. Product limit estimators, Kaplan-Meier, and Nelson-Aalen. Practical aspects. [Offered: W]
Requirements, as last listed
Prereq: ACTSC 331, STAT 330; Actuarial Science or Mathematical Finance students only
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Straight forward course, as easy as it gets for 400 actsc course
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6 posts and comments in 5 threads mention ACTSC 433, October 2017 to December 2024. Quoted word for word, newest first; each reply sits under the post and the comment that started its branch. Search r/uwaterloo for newer posts.
Winter 2020
Actsc 433 2 points, 0 comments
u/s4thukra: “Anyone taking this course??”
Winter 2019
[Looking for actsci 433 notes and homework questions] for 10$ 1 point, 0 comments
Winter 2018
USE THIS POST TO UPDATE ALL THE COURSES THAT RELEASED THEIR MARKS ON QUEST. 45 points, 56 comments
“SO WE DON'T LOGIN TO QUEST EVERY 0.0001 SECONDS AND CHECK FOR UPDATES.”
u/yttropolis: “ACTSC 372 ACTSC 433 STAT 340 STAT 443 ECON 212 All out”
Fall 2017
course times / profs are out 39 points, 28 comments
u/yttropolis: “Jun Cai for ACTSC 433... Why...”
PSA: UWCourseLinker back up, disabled by default, call with [[course code]] 39 points, 31 comments
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u/UWCourseLinker: “… Finance ACTSC 391 - Corporate Finance 2 ACTSC 431 - Loss Models 1 ACTSC 432 - Loss Models 2 ACTSC 433 - Analysis of Survival Data ACTSC 445 - Quantitative Enterprise Risk Management ACTSC 446 - Mathematics of Financial Markets ACTSC 453 - Basic Pension Mathematics ACTSC 455 - …”
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- Undergraduate Calendar, 2019–20Its last calendar entry, on ucalendar
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In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1982–83 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1989–90 to 1994–95 6 calendars
Methods of analysis to produce rates for mortality and other decrements. Prereq: ACTSC 232, STAT 330
Offered Winter · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit
1982–83 to 1988–89 6 calendars
Another title: Construction of Life Tables, probably a different course under the same number (or a misread scan).
Methods of analysis of data to produce raw rates for mortality, morbidity and other tables.
Prereq: ACTSC 232 or consent of instructor
Offered Fall, Spring · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit