Smoothing mortality data: the English life table, 2010-12
Smoothing mortality data: the English life table, 2010-12
We describe the most recent statistical methodology used to produce the 17th English Life Table, covering the period 2010–2012. Crude mortality rates are smoothed, or graduated, by using a combination of a generalized additive model and low dimensional parametric models. The approach to graduation acknowledges uncertainty, particularly in the highest age groups, by model averaging, using a simplified version of a full Bayesian analysis.
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Dodd, Erengul
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Forster, Jonathan
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Bijak, Jakub
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Smith, Peter
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Dodd, Erengul
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Forster, Jonathan
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Bijak, Jakub
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Smith, Peter
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Dodd, Erengul, Forster, Jonathan, Bijak, Jakub and Smith, Peter
(2018)
Smoothing mortality data: the English life table, 2010-12.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series A (Statistics in Society), 181 (3), .
(doi:10.1111/rssa.12309).
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We describe the most recent statistical methodology used to produce the 17th English Life Table, covering the period 2010–2012. Crude mortality rates are smoothed, or graduated, by using a combination of a generalized additive model and low dimensional parametric models. The approach to graduation acknowledges uncertainty, particularly in the highest age groups, by model averaging, using a simplified version of a full Bayesian analysis.
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Submitted date: 15 January 2016
Accepted/In Press date: 24 June 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 11 August 2017
Published date: June 2018
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