Mortality is different across countries, states and regions. Several empirical research works however reveal that … mortality trends exhibit a common pattern and show similar structures across populations. The key element in analyzing mortality … the empirical findings, we make the study of estimating and forecasting mortality rates based on a semi …

-life mortality using data from the Uppsala Birth Cohort Study of individuals born in 1915-1929. The results suggest a relationship …

Mortality is different across countries, states and regions. Several empirical research works however reveal that … mortality trends exhibit a common pattern and show similar structures across populations. The key element in analyzing mortality … the empirical findings, we make the study of estimating and forecasting mortality rates based on a semi …

I adapt Schmertmann's Calibrated Spline method to the problem of estimating a complete mortality schedule from abridged … data. I demonstrate its ability to fit the range of mortality profiles seen across the epidemiological transition. I find …

estimation. Many variables that actuaries use are on numerical scales, like age or year, which require parameters at each point … mortality modeling for related populations. Bayesian shrinkage of slope changes of linear splines is an approach to …

using a variety of estimation techniques. The preference is given to the semi-parametric model where the cumulative …