Choice of function for mortality analysis: Effective forecasting depends on a minimum parameter representation

DOI10.1016/0040-5809(82)90022-3zbMath0487.62089OpenAlexW2068884704MaRDI QIDQ1165547

Nathan Keyfitz

Publication date: 1982

Published in: Theoretical Population Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0040-5809(82)90022-3

zbMATH Keywords

surveydemographyreliabilityforecastingreviewlogitlife tablesBrass relational methodgraduation methodsGreville schemesminimum parameter representationmortality analysismortality functionsReed-Merrell schemesspline graduation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Numerical computation using splines (65D07) Numerical smoothing, curve fitting (65D10) Applications of statistics to actuarial sciences and financial mathematics (62P05) Numerical interpolation (65D05)

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