Erbas, Bircan; Hyndman, Rob J.; Gertig, Dorota M. - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2005
Accurate estimates of future age-specific incidence and mortality are critical for allocation of resources to breast … techniques to model age-specific breast cancer mortality time trends, and forecast entire age-specific mortality function using a … state-space approach. We use yearly unadjusted breast cancer mortality rates in Australia, from 1921 to 2001 in 5 year age …