Best Materials for Section C and E

[ugastat06]

Is the Batten book: Life Contingencies: A Logical Approach to Actuarial Mathematics adequate for covering the Life Contingency models section for CAS3?

Also, what manual is best for survival models, section C?

I'm thinking of going with Mahler for the statistics and the Infinite Actuary for the financial economics.

[freeze12]

Batten is great for the Life Con and Survival Models stuff if you already have some knowledge of the material. He just provides a lot of problems and some useful shortcuts that are not taught in the Bowers text. So if you have no prior knowledge of the material than I would not use Batten.

[TRINIDON2K]

you do know the test is in less that week...right?

[ugastat06]

Originally Posted by TRINIDON2K

you do know the test is in less that week...right?

Yea, I'm taking it in the fall