Booth, Heather; Hyndman, Rob; Tickle, Leonie; Jong, Piet de - In: Demographic Research 15 (2006) 9, pp. 289-310
We compare the short- to medium-term accuracy of five variants or extensions of the Lee-Carter method for mortality forecasting. These include the original Lee-Carter, the Lee-Miller and Booth-Maindonald-Smith variants, and the more flexible Hyndman-Ullah and De Jong-Tickle extensions. These...