Probability and Statistics with Applications: A Problem Solving Text
Probability and Statistics with Applications: A Problem Solving Text by Leonard Asimow, Ph.D., ASA is a comprehensive introductory textbook published by ACTEX Publications on June 30, 2015. This 2nd edition, spanning 600 pages, is designed to make the concepts of probability and statistics accessible to college freshmen and sophomores, particularly those enrolled in calculus courses. The text is specifically organized to support students preparing for the Society of Actuaries qualifying Examination P and the Casualty Actuarial Society’s Exam S.
Readers will find a wealth of resources within this book, including sample actuarial exam problems, illustrative examples, and a total of 870 exercises to reinforce learning. The expanded statistics section addresses topics relevant to both SOA Exam P and CAS S, while new or rewritten sections cover advanced subjects such as non-homogeneous Poisson processes and non-parametric statistics. This edition effectively combines the attributes of a solid academic text with the practical needs of an actuarial exam study manual, making it suitable for those pursuing a deeper understanding of mathematical probability and statistics.
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This text is listed on the Course of Reading for SOA Exam P.
Probability and Statistics with Applications is an introductory textbook designed to make the subject accessible to college freshmen and sophomores concurrent with Calc II and III, with a prerequisite of just one smester of calculus. It is organized specifically to meet the needs of students who are preparing for the Society of Actuaries qualifying Examination P and Casualty Actuarial Society’s new Exam S.
Sample actuarial exam problems are integrated throughout the text along with an abundance of illustrative examples and 870 exercises.
The book provides the content to serve as the primary text for a standard two-semester advanced undergraduate course in mathematical probability and statistics.
2nd Edition Highlights
Expansion of statistics portion to cover CAS ST and all of the statistics portion of CAS SAbundance of examples and sample exam problems for both Exams SOA P and CAS SCombines best attributes of a solid text and an actuarial exam study manual in one volumeWidely used by college freshmen and sophomores to pass SOA Exam P early in their college careersMay be used concurrently with calculus coursesNew or rewritten sections cover topics such as discrete and continuous mixture distributions, non-homogeneous Poisson processes, conjugate pairs in Bayesian estimation, statistical sufficiency, non-parametric statistics, and other topics also relevant to SOA Exam C.
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