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), 717-735. (doi:10.1111/rssa.12309).
Abstract
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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