Forecasting life expectancy in an international context

International Journal of Forecasting

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 519-531

  Torri, Tiziana ^a   Vaupel, James W ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

ARIMA models; Best practice levels; Geometric Brownian motion; Geometric mean reverting process; Monte Carlo simulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856697626     PISSN: 01692070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijforecast.2011.01.009     Document Type: Article

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