addDetails

Based on the chosen mortality law (or a custom law), this function retrieves
the default starting parameters, the model information table, and whether
the age vector should be scaled before fitting.

internal

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>.
Practical functions for downloading data from various human mortality
databases are provided as well.

Marius Pascariu

MortalityLaws

Parametric Mortality Models, Life Tables and HMD

Marius D. Pascariu

Vladimir Canudas-Romo

addDetails function

<dl><dt>law</dt>
<dd>The name of the mortality law to be used (e.g., <code>"gompertz"</code>,
<code>"makeham"</code>). Run <code>availableLaws</code> to see all options.</dd>
<dt>custom.law</dt>
<dd>A user-defined function for fitting a model not included
in the package. The function must accept arguments <code>x</code> (age vector)
and <code>par</code> (named parameter vector) and return a list containing at
least an element named <code>hx</code> (the hazard or force of mortality). See
the examples below.</dd>
<dt>parS</dt>
<dd>Optional starting parameter values for the optimisation. If
<code>NULL</code>, sensible defaults are automatically chosen via
<code>bring_parameters</code>.</dd></dl>

Arguments

Retrieve model-specific details for fitting — addDetails

<dl>

<dt>law</dt>
<dd>The name of the mortality law to be used (e.g., <code>"gompertz"</code>,
<code>"makeham"</code>). Run <code>availableLaws</code> to see all options.</dd>


<dt>custom.law</dt>
<dd>A user-defined function for fitting a model not included
in the package. The function must accept arguments <code>x</code> (age vector)
and <code>par</code> (named parameter vector) and return a list containing at
least an element named <code>hx</code> (the hazard or force of mortality). See
the examples below.</dd>


<dt>parS</dt>
<dd>Optional starting parameter values for the optimisation. If
<code>NULL</code>, sensible defaults are automatically chosen via
<code>bring_parameters</code>.</dd>

</dl>

addDetails: Retrieve model-specific details for fitting

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