summary.yourcast: Summarize yourcast output

In IQSS/YourCast: Forecasting Age-Sex-Country-Cause Mortality Rates

Description

yourcast class summary function

Usage

## S3 method for class 'yourcast'
summary(object, ...)

Arguments

object	yourcast output object to be summarized
...	Arguments to be passed to or from other methods.

Value

A list of summary objects of class ‘summary.yourcast’:

sample.frame	Four element vector containing, in order, the start and end time periods to be used for the observed data and the start and end time periods to be forecast
params	Vector. Smoothing parameters used in model.
model	String. Estimation technique used.
formula	Language. Formula used in analysis.
numcs	Integer. Number of cross sections used in analysis.
cntry.codes	Vector. Unique geographical codes of cross sections used in analysis.
cntry.names	Vector. If G.names dataframe submitted to yourcast, the names of all unique geographical codes of cross sections used in analysis.
coef	List. List of matrices with estimated coefficents for each cross section. For Lee-Carter models, only one set of coefficents calculated. Standard errors are not calculated for these coefficients.

Author(s)

Jon Bischof [e-mail]

References

http://gking.harvard.edu/yourcast

See Also

yourcast,print.summary.yourcast

IQSS/YourCast documentation built on May 7, 2019, 6:03 a.m.