Smoothing the Lee-Carter and Poisson log-bilinear models for mortality forecasting: A penalized log-likelihood approach

Statistical Modelling

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 29-48

  Delwarde, Antoine ^a   Denuit, Michel ^a   Eilers, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cross validation; Life table; Mortality projection; Penalty; Roughness; Smoothing

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548260820     PISSN: 1471082X     EISSN: 14770342     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1471082X0600700103     Document Type: Article

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