The majority of work in mortality modeling involves factor-based approaches, with little use of information on the … determinants and interpretable risk factors of mortality. At the same time, in the demographic community, there has been a lack of … research attention towards the study of mortality from a spatial perspective. This work is a step towards addressing this, by …

hundreds of miles apart. Because lifestyle and environmental factors contribute to mortality, spatial correlation may be an … important feature in mortality modeling. However, many of the current mortality models fail to account for spatial relationships …. This paper introduces spatio-temporal trends into traditional mortality modeling using Bayesian hierarchical models with …

-lite mortality using data from the Uppsala birth cohort study of individuals born in 1915–1929. The results suggest a relationship …