Bayesian stochastic mortality modeling for two populations

ASTIN Bulletin

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 29-59

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

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c Pension Advisory Group   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Age effect; Cohort effect; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Missing data; Parameter uncertainty; Period effect; Small sub populations

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957982779     PISSN: 05150361     EISSN: 17831350     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2143/AST.41.1.2084385     Document Type: Article

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