Evaluating the goodness of fit of stochastic mortality models

Insurance: Mathematics and Economics

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 255-265

  Dowd, Kevin ^a   Cairns, Andrew J G ^b   Blake, David ^a   Coughlan, Guy D ^c   Epstein, David ^c   Khalaf Allah, Marwa ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Pension Advisory Group   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Goodness of fit; Mortality models; Standard normality

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049286674     PISSN: 01676687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.insmatheco.2010.06.006     Document Type: Article

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