Evaluating the performance of the Lee-Carter method for forecasting mortality

Demography

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 537-549

  Lee, Ronald ^a   Miller, Timothy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MORTALITY; NOTE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGE FACTORS; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0035512765     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3088317     Document Type: Review

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