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The seminar instructors have provided the following suggested preparation resources and reading list for participants planning to attend the SOA’s Health Predictive Analytics Seminar:

1. Before the seminar, become familiar with R. 

Very useful sources including instructions for downloading R and using packages: http://opensourcesoftware.casact.org/introduction-to-r

http://www.statmethods.net/

http://www.ats.ucla.edu/stat/r/

Useful books:

R in Action (Kabacoff). Published by Manning.  www.manning.com

R Cookbook (Teetor). Published by O’Reilly www.oreilly.com

Jed Frees’s book on predictive modeling applications:

http://instruction.bus.wisc.edu/jfrees/jfreesbooks/PredictiveModelingVol1/index.htm

2. Also refresh your memory of basic statistics using any text of your choice. Here is a free basic stats text: https://www.openintro.org/stat/textbook.php. 
3. Introductory text on health data and some applications:

Risk Adjustment and Predictive Modeling (2^nd Ed.) (Duncan) Actex Publications  www.actexmadriver.com

4. There are several good texts on survival modeling.  Here is one suggestion: Modeling Survival Data in Medical Research (Collett; 2^nd ed.) Chapman & Hall/CRC
5. Introductory Time series in R: https://a-little-book-of-r-for-time-series.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
6. Popular machine learning free text in R with little algebra: http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/
7. Other: https://www.slideshare.net/RevolutionAnalytics/actuarial-analytics-in-r