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.

This is an old version of the development site. See Open Actuarial Textbooks Project:Development Site for a current version.

Development Site

This is the landing page where you can access recent developments in the Loss Data Analytics texts. A more stable version, that is being updated less frequently, is available at our ‘production’ Open Actuarial Textbooks Landing Site. You can also access pdf and epub (current and older) versions of the text in our Offline versions of the text.

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.

The most recent version of the book is available at

• View the online version in .html format - this is the interactive version.

Source code is available at our GitHub site.

Prospective contributors should also check out our Style Guide

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.

Interactive Features of Loss Data Analytics

This repository describes the interactive features being developed for Loss Data Analytics.

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 a development GitHub site.

Translation Demonstration

• Several chapters have been translated into Spanish and more are forthcoming.
• Here is a version of the book where we translated a section from English to Malay.
• The instructions for doing the translation are at a repository on GitHub.

Life Contingencies / Actuarial Mathematics

The initial focus of the project is on Loss Data Analytics although we hope to expand to other actuarial texts. In that spirit, we organize several sets of notes for Life Contingencies, also known as Actuarial Mathematics and Long Term Actuarial Mathematics. See the development 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.