Open Actuarial Textbooks Project Goal

The goal is to have the actuarial community author our textbooks in a collaborative fashion. GitHub provides a natural development environment to achieve this goal. See the Open Actuarial Textbooks Project Site for more information about this project.

Loss Data Analytics

Book Description - Loss Data Analytics will be an interactive, online, freely available text.

• The online version will contain many interactive objects (quizzes, computer demonstrations, interactive graphs, video, and the like) to promote deeper learning.
• A subset of the book will be available for offline reading in pdf and EPUB formats.
• The online text will be available in multiple languages to promote access to a worldwide audience.

To see our progress, a draft of a few chapters of the book is available at

• Online Version from R Bookdown
• R Bookdown - pdf version
• R Bookdown - EPUB version

We are also experimenting with a WordPress site.

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.

Overheads for Loss Data Analytics

This site provides chapter summaries in the form of overheads to support the online text Loss Data Analytics. Overheads in .pdf format and source code is available at our GitHub site.

Life Contingencies / Actuarial Mathematics

We are also starting to organize several sets of notes for Life Contingencies, also known as Actuarial Mathematics and Long Term Actuarial Mathematics. See our GitHub Site.

Your Help

As described in our License, anyone can use these files. Especially at this early stage of the project, if you want to help and would like more info, please write Jed Frees jfrees@bus.wisc.edu.