Mortality, longevity and experiments with the Lee-Carter model

Lifetime Data Analysis

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 286-315

  Haberman, Steven ^a   Renshaw, Arthur ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cohort effect; Forecasting; Lee Carter model; Mortality rates; Prediction intervals

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE TABLE; LONGEVITY; MALE; MORTALITY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; STATISTICAL MODEL;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; LONGEVITY; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MORTALITY; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 46349101369     PISSN: 13807870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10985-008-9084-2     Document Type: Article

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