Demographic forecasting /
Demographic Forecasting introduces new statistical tools that can greatly improve forecasts of population death rates. Mortality forecasting is used in a wide variety of academic fields, and for policymaking in global health, social security and retirement planning, and other areas. Federico Girosi...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2008]
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Qualitative view
- Existing methods for forecasting mortality. Methods without covariates ; Methods with covariates
- Statistical modeling. The model ; Priors over grouped continuous variables ; Model selection ; Adding priors over time and space ; Comparisons and extensions
- Estimation. Markov Chain Monte Carlo estimation ; Fast estimation without Markov Chains
- Empirical evidence. Illustrative analyses ; Comparative analyses ; Concluding remarks ; A. Notation
- B. Mathematical refresher
- C. Improper normal priors
- D. Discretization of the derivative operator
- E. Smoothness over graphs.