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MortalitySmooth (version 2.2)

MortalitySmooth-package: Smoothing Poisson counts with P-splines

Description

Smoothing one- and two-dimensional Poisson counts with P-splines specifically tailored to mortality data. Extra-Poisson variation can be accounted as well as mortality forecasting. Collection of mortality data and a specific function for selecting those data by country, sex, age and years.

Arguments

Details

ll{ Package: MortalitySmooth Type: Package Version: 2.2 Date: 2012-02-05 License: What license is it under? LazyLoad: yes }

References

Eilers and Marx (1996). Flexible Smoothing with B-splines and Penalties. Statistical Science. Vol. 11. 89-121. Currie, Durban and Eilers (2004). Smoothing and forecasting mortality rates. Statistical Modelling. Vol. 4. 279-298. Currie, Durban and Eilers (2006). Generalized linear array models with applications to multidimensional smoothing. JRSS. Vol. 68. 259-280.