ASM Study Manual Exam C/4, Thirteenth Edition - 2nd Printing

This manual offers comprehensive coverage of the syllabus for SOA Exam C and CAS Exam 4. In its 58 lessons, the following topics are reviewed:
Parametric distributions
Risk measures
Coverage modifications, including deductibles, claims limits, coinsurance, and inflation
Discrete distributions
Compound models
Aggregate deductibles
Empirical estimators, including ogives, product-limit and Nelson-Aalen
Kernel smoothing
Parametric estimation, including method of moments, percentile matching, and maximum likelihood
Hypothesis testing
Limited fluctuation credibility
Bayesian credibility
Buhlmann credibility
Empirical Bayes methods
Simulation using the inversion method
Bootstrap approximation

The manual has about 1400 pages, about 250 examples, 72 in-lesson exercises, and about 1300 end-of-lesson exercises, including both original and old exam questions, many of them taken from pre-2000 exams, which are not easily available, all with worked out solutions. In addition to these exercises, there are ten full-length (35-question) practice exams. An appendix has a cross reference to help you track down lessons corresponding to published 2000 and later exam questions, and there is an index. Many students have found this manual adequate by itself for exam preparation, but the Klugman textbook for the exam, as well as the other text options where available, are referenced in each lesson if you wish to use them.

The 13th edition - 2nd printing incorporates corrections of all errata through the date of publication.