Coherent Mortality Forecasting: The Product-Ratio Method With Functional Time Series Models

Demography

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 261-283

  Hyndman, Rob J ^a   Booth, Heather ^b   Yasmeen, Farah ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coherent forecasts; Functional data; Lee Carter method; Life expectancy; Mortality forecasting

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872936476     PISSN: 00703370     EISSN: 15337790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13524-012-0145-5     Document Type: Article

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