Bayesian Poisson log-bilinear mortality projections

Insurance: Mathematics and Economics

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 260-284

  Czado, Claudia ^a   Delwarde, Antoine ^b   Denuit, Michel ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Expected remaining lifetimes; MCMC; Poisson regression; Projected lifetables

Indexed keywords

EID: 21244478558     PISSN: 01676687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.insmatheco.2005.01.001     Document Type: Article

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