availableLaws: Check Available Mortality Laws

In MortalityLaws: Parametric Mortality Models, Life Tables and HMD

Check Available Mortality Laws

Description

The function returns information about the parametric models that can be called and fitted in the MortalityLaw function. For a comprehensive review of the most important mortality laws, Tabeau (2001) is a good starting point.

Usage

availableLaws(law = NULL)

Arguments

law	Optional. Default: NULL. One can extract details about a certain model by specifying its codename.

Value

The output is of the "availableLaws" class with the components:

table	Table with mortality models and codes to be used in MortalityLaw
legend	Table with details about the section of the mortality curve

Author(s)

Marius D. Pascariu

References

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2. Makeham, W. (1860). On the Law of Mortality and Construction of Annuity Tables. The Assurance Magazine and Journal of the Institute of Actuaries, 8(6), 301-310. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1017/S204616580000126X")}

3. Thiele, T. (1871). On a Mathematical Formula to express the Rate of Mortality throughout the whole of Life, tested by a Series of Observations made use of by the Danish Life Insurance Company of 1871. Journal of the Institute of Actuaries and Assurance Magazine, 16(5), 313-329. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1017/S2046167400043688")}

4. Oppermann, L. H. F. (1870). On the graduation of life tables, with special application to the rate of mortality in infancy and childhood. The Insurance Record Minutes from a meeting in the Institute of Actuaries, 42.

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6. Steffensen, J. (1930). Infantile mortality from an actuarial point of view. Skandinavisk Aktuarietidskrift 13, 272-286. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1080/03461238.1930.10416902")}

7. Perks, W. (1932). On Some Experiments in the Graduation of Mortality Statistics. Journal of the Institute of Actuaries, 63(1), 12-57. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1017/S0020268100046680")}

8. Harper, F. S. (1936). An actuarial study of infant mortality. Scandinavian Actuarial Journal 1936 (3-4), 234-270. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1080/03461238.1936.10405113")}

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11. Vaupel, J., Manton, K.G., and Stallard, E. (1979). The impact of heterogeneity in individual frailty on the dynamics of mortality. Demography 16(3): 439-454. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.2307/2061224")}

12. Siler, W. (1979), A Competing-Risk Model for Animal Mortality. Ecology, 60: 750-757. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.2307/1936612")}

13. Heligman, L., & Pollard, J. (1980). The age pattern of mortality. Journal of the Institute of Actuaries, 107(1), 49-80. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1017/S0020268100040257")}

14. Rogers A and Planck F (1983). MODEL: A General Program for Estimating Parametrized Model Schedules of Fertility, Mortality, Migration, and Marital and Labor Force Status Transitions. IIASA Working Paper. IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: WP-83-102

15. Martinelle S. (1987). A generalized Perks formula for old-age mortality. Stockholm, Sweden, Statistiska Centralbyran, 1987. 55 p. (R&D Report, Research-Methods-Development, U/STM No. 38)

16. Carriere J.F. (1992). Parametric models for life tables. Transactions of the Society of Actuaries. Vol.44

17. Kostaki A. (1992). A nine-parameter version of the Heligman-Pollard formula. Mathematical Population Studies. Vol. 3 277-288. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1080/08898489209525346")}

18. Thatcher AR, Kannisto V and Vaupel JW (1998). The force of mortality at ages 80 to 120. Odense Monographs on Population Aging Vol. 5, Odense University Press, 1998. 104, 20 p. Odense, Denmark

19. Tabeau E. (2001). A Review of Demographic Forecasting Models for Mortality. In: Tabeau E., van den Berg Jeths A., Heathcote C. (eds) Forecasting Mortality in Developed Countries. European Studies of Population, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1007/0-306-47562-6_1")}

20. Finkelstein M. (2012) Discussing the Strehler-Mildvan model of mortality Demographic Research, Vol. 26(9), 191-206. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.4054/DemRes.2012.26.9")}

See Also

MortalityLaw

Examples

availableLaws()

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