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Thursday 6 January 2011

Prospective mortality tables; R is your friend

A very interesting R package that permits to easily fit the Lee Carter model for prospective mortality tables.

website: http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/demography/demography.pdf

Description:

Functions for demographic analysis including lifetable
calculations; Lee-Carter modelling; functional data analysis of
mortality rates, fertility rates, net migration numbers; and stochastic population forecasting

Interested people might also find intersting to use the web applciation developped by Mr Lee himself:
http://lcfit.demog.berkeley.edu/

Useless to say that the web application uses Python... ;-)

1 comment:

  1. Thanks. The Python code is available at:
    https://github.com/webbs/lcfit.

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