Fit the most popular human mortality laws
, and construct full and abridged life tables given various input indices. A mortality law is a parametric function that describes the dying-out process of individuals in a population during a significant portion of their
life spans. For a comprehensive review of the most important mortality laws see Tabeau (2001). Function for downloading demographic data from the following sources are provided:
install.packages("MortalityLaws")
You can track and contribute to the development of MortalityLaws
on GitHub. To install it:
Install the release version of devtools
from CRAN with install.packages("devtools")
.
Make sure you have a working development environment.
Xcode
from the Mac App Store.Install the development version of MortalityLaws
.
R
devtools::install_github("mpascariu/MortalityLaws")
All functions are documented in the standard way, which means that once you load the package using library(MortalityLaws)
you can just type ?MortalityLaw
to see the help file.
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