Extending Lee-Carter mortality forecasting

Mathematical Population Studies

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-18

  de Jong, Piet ^a   Tickle, Leonie ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Forecasting; Kalman filtering; Lee Carter method; Mortality

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING METHOD; MORTALITY; POPULATION MODELING;

EID: 31344477908     PISSN: 08898480     EISSN: 1547724X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08898480500452109     Document Type: Article

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