Conducting Maximum Likelihood Estimation with Truncated Mortality Data
Helper functions
Convert hazard ratios to life expectancy
Create diagnostic plots
Create diagnostic plot (hazard scale)
Get starting values for parameters
Gompertz MLE function
Simulate Gompertzian death distribution
Translate a single hazard ratio to remaining life expectancy
Gompertz mle function
Gompertz Negative Log Likelihood Function
Pipe operator
Estimates hazard ratios and mortality differentials for doubly-truncated data without population denominators. This method is described in Goldstein et al. (2023) <doi:10.1007/s11113-023-09785-z>.
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