401-3936-00L  Data Analytics for Non-Life Insurance Pricing

SemesterFrühjahrssemester 2018
DozierendeC. M. Buser, M. V. Wüthrich
Periodizitätjährlich wiederkehrende Veranstaltung
LehrspracheEnglisch


KurzbeschreibungWe study statistical methods in supervised learning for non-life insurance pricing such as generalized linear models, generalized additive models, Bayesian models, neural networks, classification and regression trees, random forests, gradient boosting machines and support vector machines. Moreover, we present unsupervised learning methods applied to telematics car driving data.
LernzielThe student is familiar with classical actuarial pricing methods as well as with modern machine learning methods for insurance pricing and prediction.
InhaltWe present the following chapters:
- generalized linear models (GLMs)
- generalized additive models (GAMs)
- credibility theory
- classification and regression trees (CARTs)
- bagging, random forests and boosting
- support vector machines (SVMs)
- unsupervised learning methods
- telematics car driving data
SkriptThe lecture notes are available from:
Link
Voraussetzungen / BesonderesThis course will be held in English and counts towards the diploma of "Aktuar SAV".
For the latter, see details under Link

Good knowledge in probability theory, stochastic processes and statistics is assumed.