The Double-Gap Life Expectancy Forecasting Model
Time series model for the best-practice gap
Function to generate correlated prediction intervals from a mvrnorm
Fit the DoubleGap Life Expectancy Forecasting Model
Find the fitted values of the DoubleGap model
Find the observed values (from input data). Format.
Find record life expectancy at age x given a set of life tables
Function to find the value of tau
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Generic Plot Function for Class predict.DoubleGap
Generic Predict Function for Class DoubleGap
The role of this function is to prepare data in such a way that is rea...
Prepare additional data in order to perform predictions
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Print function for HMD4mx data
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Fit sex-gap model. This is a modified version of the Raftery linear mo...
Summary DoubleGap
Life expectancy is highly correlated over time among countries and between males and females. These associations can be used to improve forecasts. Here we have implemented a method for forecasting female life expectancy based on analysis of the gap between female life expectancy in a country compared with the record level of female life expectancy in the world. Second, to forecast male life expectancy, the gap between male life expectancy and female life expectancy in a country is analysed. We named this method the Double-Gap model. For a detailed description of the method see Pascariu et al. (2017). <doi:10.1016/j.insmatheco.2017.09.011>.
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