mortalityImprovement: Return the mortality trend (yearly log-death-probability...

In kainhofer/r-mortality-tables: A Framework for Various Types of Mortality / Life Tables

Description

Return the mortality trend (yearly log-death-probability improvement) of the given period or the given generation.

Usage

mortalityImprovement(object, ..., Period = NULL, YOB = 1975)

## S4 method for signature 'mortalityTable'
mortalityImprovement(object, ..., Period = NULL, YOB = 1975)

Arguments

object	The life table object (class inherited from mortalityTable)
...	Other parameters (currently unused)
Period	The observation year for which the mortality improvement should be calculated. If both YOB and Period are given, YOB is ignored.
YOB	The birth year for which the mortality improvement should be calculated

Methods (by class)

• mortalityTable: Return the yearly log-mortality improvement of the life table given the birth or observation year

Examples

mortalityTables.load("Austria_Annuities")
# AVOe 2005R includes a trend decline by default, compare the exact table
# with the table without decline:
mortalityImprovement(AVOe2005R.male, Period = 2017)
mortalityImprovement(AVOe2005R.male.nodamping, Period = 2017)

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