Austin Study Notes

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Jim Daniel has begun occasionally releasing Austin Study Notes to help learners prepare for actuarial exams. These are not detailed study manuals full of practice problems, but are brief and inexpensive study aids written in the same learner-friendly style as his SoA/CAS-required Exam MLC/3 SoA Study Note on multistate transition models (Markov chains) that many readers have found easy to master.

The Study Notes available now are
  • "Poisson processes (and mixture distributions)", 14 pages originally intended as an alternative to the SoA/CAS-required material on Poisson processes in the Probability Models textbook by Ross but now the required reading material; two of those pages cover the concept of mixture distributions that come up throughout the Exam MLC/3L and C/4 syllabi. You can download the pdf file for free.
  • "Mixture distributions in Exams MLC/3 and C/4", 12 pages intended to explain how to compute with the mixture distributions that appear in Exam MLC/3L and especially in Exam C/4—including a simple way to compute with the kernel-smoothing or kernel-density method of Exam C/4. You can download the pdf file for free.
  • "(Common) Shock models in Exam MLC", 11 pages intended  to explain a simple way to compute with shock models that makes them a special case of the more commonly tested material on joint independent lifetimes. You can download the pdf file for free.
  • "LogNormal stock-price models", 11 pages primarily intended to provide prerequisite background on these models that is covered in the new MFE/3F syllabus material but needed for Exam C/4. While especially for those taking C/4 without the MFE/3F background, it might be helpful for MFE/3F students as well. You can download the pdf file for free.

For any purchased—rather than free—Austin Study Notes, be sure to send Jim Daniel a completed copy of this order form by e-mail (jimdaniel@actuarialseminars.com) or FAX (512/343-8788) or mail (Jim Daniel, 4212 Cat Hollow Drive, Austin, TX 78731-2004).

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