The students of the Master’s Degree in Actuarial and Financial Sciences have had the opportunity to receive a GLM,s course during the month of April. The course has been given free of charge to all interested students.
The teaching has been carried out by Professor Doctor Jesús Simón del Potro, Associate Professor of UC3M, Engineer and Actuary.
The program of the course has been the following:
- Linear models
- Distributions of the exponential family (Poisson, Binomial, Exponential)
- Construction of the GLM, s:
-Distribution of error and link function (link ratio): identity, log, logit, probit.
– Maximum likelihood estimator (NLL)
4. Application examples of GLM, s with Excel and R (Variables dummies, Grouping of variables, Wald test, Odss ratio, Statistic G, Judging the adjustment of a logistic regression, False positives)
Students will receive a diploma of the Master, certifying their attendance and academic achievement.
