Modeling hazard rates as functional data for the analysis of cohort lifetables and mortality forecasting

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 104, Issue 486, 2009, Pages 572-585

  Chiou, Jeng Min ^a   MüLler, Hans Georg ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Eigenfunction; Force of mortality; Functional data analysis; Log hazard function; Prediction; Principal component; Swedish mortality; Time varying modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 66549091332     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/jasa.2009.0023     Document Type: Article

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