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demography (version 1.07)

Forecasting mortality, fertility, migration and population data

Description

Functions for demographic analysis including lifetable calculations; Lee-Carter modelling; functional data analysis of mortality rates, fertility rates, net migration numbers; and stochastic population forecasting.

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install.packages('demography')

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1.07

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GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Rob Hyndman

Last Published

November 4th, 2010

Functions in demography (1.07)

models

Show model information for the forecast coefficients in FDM models.
life.expectancy

Estimate life expectancy from mortality rates
plot.lifetable

Plot life expectancy from lifetable
extract.years

Extract some years from a demogdata object
forecast.lca

Forecast demogdata data using Lee-Carter method.
demography-package

Forecasting mortality and fertility data
cm.spline

Monotonic interpolating splines
summary.fdm

Summary for functional demographic model or Lee-Carter model
lifetable

Construct lifetables from mortality rates
plot.errorfdm

Plot differences between actuals and estimates from fitted demographic model
demogdata

Create demogdata object from raw data matrices
hmd.mx

Read demographic data from the Human Mortality Database
plot.fmforecast

Plot forecasts from a functional demographic modell
plot.demogdata

Plot age-specific demographic functions
combine.demogdata

Combine two demogdata objects into one demogdata object
simulate.fmforecast

Simulate future sample paths from functional demographic model forecasts.
set.upperage

Combine the upperages of a demogdata object.
extract.ages

Extract some ages from a demogdata object
mean.demogdata

Mean and median functions for data of class demogdata
smooth.demogdata

Create smooth demogdata functions
netmigration

Calculate net migration from mortality and fertility data
plot.fmres

Plot residuals from fitted demographic model
lca

Model mortality data using Lee-Carter approach
sex.ratio

Compute sex ratios from mortality rates
aus.fert

Australian fertility data
isfe

Integrated Squared Forecast Error for models of various orders
forecast.fdmpr

Forecast coherent functional demographic model.
median

Median
compare.demogdata

Evaluation of demographic forecast accuracy
tfr

Compute total fertility rate from fertility rates
fr.mort

French mortality data
forecast.fdm

Forecast functional demographic model.
residuals.fdm

Compute residuals and fitted values from functional demographic model or Lee-Carter model
fdm

Functional demographic model
pop.sim

Population simulation
coherentfdm

Coherent functional demographic model for grouped data
read.demogdata

Read demographic data and construct demogdata object