Mortality Modelling and Forecasting: a Review of Methods

Annals of Actuarial Science

Volumn 3, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 3-43

  Booth, H ^a   Tickle, L ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cause of Death; Cohort; Decomposition; Extrapolation; Forecasting; GLM; Lee Carter; Modelling; Mortality; p splines; Software; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 85173634613     PISSN: 17484995     EISSN: 17485002     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1748499500000440     Document Type: Article

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