deviance.MortalityLaw

<p>further arguments passed to or from other methods.</p>

<p>deviance function for MortalityLaw</p>

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Fit the most popular human mortality 'laws', and construct
full and abridge life tables given various input indices. A mortality
law is a parametric function that describes the dying-out process of
individuals in a population during a significant portion of their
life spans. For a comprehensive review of the most important mortality
laws see Tabeau (2001) <doi:10.1007/0-306-47562-6_1>.
An elegant function for downloading data from Human Mortality
Database <http://www.mortality.org> is provided as well.

Marius Pascariu

MortalityLaws

deviance.MortalityLaw: deviance function for MortalityLaw

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