Age-specific mortality rates are estimated and projected using the Kannisto, Lee-Carter and related methods as described in Sevcikova et al. (2016).
The main functions are:
Functions contained in the package can be used for both, 5-year and 1-year age groups.
Other methods for forecasting mortality rates are available:
pmd: pattern of mortality decline
mlt: model life tables, using UN lookup tables. Note that the tables were updated in version 2.6-0 (October 2021). For previous version of the tables install 2.5-0, e.g. devtools::install_github("PPgp/MortCast@v2.5-0")
logquad: log-quadratic mortality model
mortcast.blend: combining two different methods
A life table can be constructed using the life.table function.
Li, N. and Lee, R. D. (2005). Coherent mortality forecasts for a group of populations: An extension of the Lee-Carter method. Demography, 42, 575-594.
Li, N., Lee, R. D. and Gerland, P. (2013). Extending the Lee-Carter method to model the rotation of age patterns of mortality decline for long-term projections. Demography, 50, 2037-2051.
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