Open Actuarial Textbooks Project: Development Site
This site is for teachers, authors, and others who seek to contribute to the development of free and open actuarial textbooks.
Project Goal
The goal is to have the actuarial community author our textbooks in a collaborative fashion. If this is your first visit to this site, you may wish to get additional background information about the project and its relationship to open education. See the Open Actuarial Textbooks Project Site for more information about the project.
Our completed works are available at the Open Actuarial Textbooks site.
Loss Data Analytics - Edition Two
Work is now completed on the second edition of Loss Data Analytics (LDA).
- A Steering Committee assembled a set of Guiding Principles to be used to direct the development of the second edition.
- Prospective contributors should start with our Style Guide
- This repository describes the interactive features that were considered for Loss Data Analytics (many of which were adopted).
Life Contingencies
The initial focus of the project is on Loss Data Analytics although we hope to expand to other actuarial texts. In that spirit, a small group has started work on another core discipline within actuarial science.
- The tentative title is Life Contingencies: The Mathematics, Statistics, and Economics of Life Insurance; this provides an initial draft of the text.
- See the development GitHub Site for the underpinning code.
- This project is on hold now - we hope to get a bit more energy to take it up again in the near future.
Open Actuarial Science Educational Resources on the Web
This project is designed to support actuarial education by bringing together a curated collection of freely available resources, including books, lecture notes, tutorials, datasets, videos, and other educational materials relevant to actuarial science. See our latest draft. Feedback welcome!
Other Efforts
R Codes for Loss Data Analytics
This site provides files that generate R codes to support the online text Loss Data Analytics. To get an idea of what the files will generate for users, see the Online Version from R Code Support. Source code is available at our GitHub site.
Your Help
As described in our License, anyone can use these files. If you want to help and would like more info, please write Jed Frees jfrees@bus.wisc.edu. Much of our efforts are currently being organized the umbrella of the Astin Academy.
Mission of ASTIN Academy
The mission of the ASTIN Academy is to provide high quality free educational materials in non-life insurance to actuarial students across the world. The Academy is committed to open course development under Creative Commons license and seeks innovation in teaching methodologies and application of technology. Let’s build the future of actuarial education together.