Undergraduates Katie Li (Statistics), Jenny Song (Mathematics), and David Yin (Statistics and Computer Science) won first place in the ANÉA-ASNA Case Competition 2017 (ASNA = Actuarial Students National Association). They beat out 10 other teams, with their development of a method for estimating an insurer’s liability from future claims.
See a photo on the UBC Science Facebook page.
The expenses of their travel to the Toronto conference were partially supported by the Statistics Fund for Excellence.
January 17, 2017