demofit: Parametric Mortality Curve Fitting and Mortality Forecasting Tools

Provides tools for fitting parametric mortality curves. Implements multiple optimisation strategies to enhance robustness and stability of parameter estimation. Offers tools for forecasting mortality rates guided by mortality curves. For modelling details see: Tabeau (2001) <doi:10.1007/0-306-47562-6_1>, Renshaw and Haberman (2006) <doi:10.1016/j.insmatheco.2005.12.001>, Cairns et al. (2009) <doi:10.1080/10920277.2009.10597538>.

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Package details

AuthorJackie Li [aut, cre, cph]
MaintainerJackie Li <jackieli@smu.edu.sg>
LicenseGPL-3
Version0.1.2
Package repositoryView on CRAN
Installation Install the latest version of this package by entering the following in R:
install.packages("demofit")

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