CSPA study plan
CSPA · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 7 hours per week
Property-casualty insurance quantities and foundations
Reconcile exposure, claims, losses, earning, dates, and coverage bases.
Calculate frequency, severity, pure premium, and stated reserve quantities.
Your checkpoint
A checked data dictionary and baseline quantity worksheet.
Data preparation, features, and visualization
Audit join cardinality and preserve the intended row unit.
Reconstruct scoring-time availability and train-only preprocessing.
Your checkpoint
A reproducible join reconciliation and leakage checklist.
Generalized linear models and statistical interpretation
Calculate log-link, logit, offset, reference, and interaction effects.
Match response support and variance assumptions to the target.
Your checkpoint
A formula notebook with independently checked count and probability examples.
Generalized linear models and statistical interpretation
Review penalties, scaling, collinearity, separation, and residual diagnostics.
Explain the assumptions of likelihood, deviance, and AIC comparisons.
Your checkpoint
A comparison memo separating fit, complexity, interpretation, and prediction.
Trees, ensembles, and model explanation
Compute leaf means, split gains, and stated ensemble variance.
Review bagging, forest diversification, boosting, stopping, and explanation limits.
Your checkpoint
A validated nonlinear model experiment with a defensible explanation.
Validation, calibration, metrics, and decisions
Align time, groups, outcome maturity, tuning, and final evaluation.
Calculate classification and regression metrics and distinguish calibration from ranking.
Your checkpoint
A validation protocol and threshold-metric worksheet with denominators.
Insurance applications, ethics, and reproducible delivery
Connect predictions with costs, capacity, pricing or reserve definitions.
Review privacy, proxy concerns, uncertainty, attribution, and reproducibility.
Your checkpoint
A responsible project-style report with code, data controls, and limitations.
Validation, calibration, metrics, and decisions
Answer a mixed practice set without reading the key and reproduce calculations.
Map remaining practical, component, and ethics preparation to current iCAS requirements.
Your checkpoint
An error log and an official-requirements gap list for the actual credential pathway.
Milestones
Week 4: Reproduce the insurance and GLM calculations and explain model assumptions without confusing counts, rates, means, odds, or probabilities.
Week 8: Complete a mixed blind practice set, document remaining errors, and separately map practical and professional preparation to current official requirements.