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UNSW Business School
School of Risk and Actuarial Studies
ACTL 2131/5101 Assignment, T2 2020
Submission deadline:
Monday, 10 August, 11 am sharp
via Turnitin (Link will be available on Moodle)
Background
You are an actuary working for a general insurance company. You were given a task to in-
vestigate unemployment insurance (UI)1 data for a particular state in the U.S. The data can
download it from the United States Department of Labour available on
https://oui.doleta.gov/unemploy/claimssum.asp
You should download the data available on a monthly basis for a particular state UI starting
from the earliest available date until end of June 2020. You have been assigned one of the 53
states in the document StateStudent.pdf uploaded to Moodle. The data you have downloaded
consists of 7 variables for the assigned state. These variables are:
• Initial claims
• First payments
• Weeks claimed
• Weeks compensated
• Average weekly benefit
• Benefits paid
• Final payments
Detailed description of the variables is available on the website of the Department of Labour.
You are asked to complete the following tasks:
1For detailed information about UI refer to https://oui.doleta.gov/unemploy/aboutui.asp
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For each question below, you are required to describe the methodology (including commentaries
on the R code where appropriate), present results from your analysis and provide a discussion
on your findings. Unless specified, use the entire sample to answer the questions.
1. (a) Present summary statistics for all 7 variables, such as mean, variance, skewness,
kurtosis, and other descriptive statistics you may find interesting (e.g. correlation
between variables). Comment on your findings.
(b) Perform graphical analysis on the 7 variables. You may use time series graphs (with
x-axis representing calendar month and y-axis representing the variable of interest)
to identify any time trends, or scatter plots (with one variable shown in the x-axis
and another variable in the y-axis) to help you identify relationship between two
variables, or any other graphs you might find worth including in the data analysis.
Comment on your findings.
2. Perform normality test for the following transformed variables log(Weeks compensated)
and log(Benefits paid). Is log-normal distribution appropriate to describe the distribution
of ”Weeks compensated” and ”Benefits paid”? Use an appropriate test, and support your
evidence using appropriate graphs.
3. Graph histogram and empirical cumulative distribution function for log(Weeks compen-
sated) and log(Benefits paid).
4. Test if log(Weeks claimed) and log(Weeks compensated) have equal mean, at 5% signifi-
cance level. Comment on the test and the results.
5. Test the hypothesis at 5% significance level that the average value of log(Benefits paid)
is greater than the value corresponding to the 55% empirical quantile of this variable.
6. (a) You are interested in knowing whether there is a linear relationship between the
number of Weeks compensated and the number of Weeks claimed in the time frame
from January 1971 (or earliest date for which your data is available) to December
2010. Set up an appropriate univariate regression model, obtain parameter estimates
and comment on your findings. Your discussion should include, but not limited to,
the significance of the estimated coefficients, model fit, analysis on the residuals and
other findings you might find interesting.
(b) Use the model you estimated in (a) to predict the values of the dependent variable
using the independent variable for the time frame from January 2011 to June 2020.
Compare your prediction with actual values. Comment on the quality of your model.
7. Assume that now you are interested in explaining Benefits paid using other variables
available in your data set. Set up an appropriate multivariate regression model, obtain
parameter estimates for the model and comment on your findings. Your discussion should
include, but not limited to, the significance of variables, model fit, residual statistics and
other findings you might find interesting.
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Learning outcomes
The assignment aims at assessing the program goals “Knowledge”, “Problem solving and critical
thinking”, as well as “Communication”. It is based on the application of the technical concepts
introduced in the course. You are expected to demonstrate your ability to analyse a real
problem, apply appropriate theories and logic to interpret the problem, and develop solutions
and conclusions. The communication of those will also be assessed.
Additional instructions
You must submit the following two items:
- Your submission, which should address each of the questions above.
The maximum number of pages is five (excluding the title page and references). The first
four pages must be a self-contained report and the fourth page can be used as a technical
appendix. If the length exceeds 5 pages, the pages beyond page 5 will not be marked.
- Your R code (in a separate document, as one file)
Note that we must be able to assess your work without running the R code. You R code
will be run in a random number of cases to check that you have done the work, and in
suspected cases of plagiarism (if any). Students will risk failing the assignment if
the code cannot be run or the output provided in the report is inconsistent
with the output generated by the code.
You should not
- Include programming codes in the main body of your report
- Have figures or tables that are not referred to or analysed in the main body of your report
- Include material that are not highly relevant in the main body of your report
Communication skills
Your report must be written in form of a report. To seek further help about writing skills,
please consult Learning Support provided by UNSW Business School (click here) .
Assignment submission
Assignment must be submitted via the Turnitin submission box that is available on the course
Moodle website. Turnitin reports on any similarities between their own cohort’s assignments,
and also with regard to other sources (such as all assignments submitted all around the world
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via Turnitin). More information is available here. Please read this page, as we will assume that
you are familiar with its content.
Please note that the School of Risk and Actuarial Studies will apply the following policy on
late assignments. A penalty of 25% of the mark the student would otherwise have obtained,
for each full (or part) day of lateness. (e.g., 0 day 1 min = 25% penalty, 2 days 21 hours =
75 = % penalty).
As long as the due date is in future, you can resubmit your work and the previous version of
your assignment will be replaced by the new version. You need to check your document once
it is submitted. We will not mark assignments that cannot be read on screen.
Students are reminded of the risk that technical issues may delay or even prevent their sub-
mission (such as internet connection and/or computer breakdowns). Students should allow
enough time (at least 24 hours is recommended) between their submission and the
due time. Please note, Turnitinin will still allow you to upload a late submission, but penalty
will be applied.
Plagiarism awareness
Students are reminded that the work they submit must be their own. While we have no problem
with students discussing assignment problems if they wish, the material students submit for
assessment must be their own. In particular, this means that any code you present are from
your own computer, which you yourself developed, without any reference to any other student?s
work.
While some small elements of code are likely to be similar, big patches of identical code (even
with different variable names, layout, or comments, Turnitin picks this up) will be considered
as plagiarism. The best strategy to avoid any problem is not to share bits and pieces of code
with other student outside your group.
Students should make sure they understand what plagiarism is as cases of plagiarism have a
very high probability of being discovered. For issues of collective work, having different persons
marking the assignment does not decrease this probability. For more information on plagiarism,
see here.
Assessment criteria
Please see the file Rubic.
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