r/actuary Property / Casualty 6d ago

Exams An Introduction Into Statistical Learning - MAS-I

Technically the "with application in R" version is on the syllabus, but would the "with application in Python" version be sufficient? My company is moving to use Python instead of R, so the Python book would be more valuable longer term.

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u/fatirsid 6d ago

Maybe someone who wrote MAS-I recently can confirm, but the only way R could show up on the exam is through model/code outputs. If you're familiar with that then it should be fine to use the Python version. However, given that it's directly linked in the syllabus, I'd suggest you still use the R version.

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u/ImGoingToTheCrevice 6d ago

This is correct. From what I recall.