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demography (version 1.09-1)

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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1.09-1

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GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Rob Hyndman

Last Published

February 17th, 2011

Functions in demography (1.09-1)

compare.demogdata

Evaluation of demographic forecast accuracy
combine.demogdata

Combine two demogdata objects into one demogdata object
extract.ages

Extract some ages from a demogdata object
set.upperage

Combine the upperages of a demogdata object.
fr.mort

French mortality data
plot.lifetable

Plot life expectancy from lifetable
extract.years

Extract some years from a demogdata object
tfr

Compute total fertility rate from fertility rates
read.demogdata

Read demographic data and construct demogdata object
isfe

Integrated Squared Forecast Error for models of various orders
demography-package

Forecasting mortality and fertility data
demogdata

Create demogdata object from raw data matrices
fdm

Functional demographic model
lifetable

Construct lifetables from mortality rates
pop.sim

Population simulation
sex.ratio

Compute sex ratios from mortality rates
residuals.fdm

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

Show model information for the forecast coefficients in FDM models.
forecast.lca

Forecast demogdata data using Lee-Carter method.
netmigration

Calculate net migration from mortality and fertility data
plot.demogdata

Plot age-specific demographic functions
plot.errorfdm

Plot differences between actuals and estimates from fitted demographic model
lca

Model mortality data using Lee-Carter approach
forecast.fdmpr

Forecast coherent functional demographic model.
cm.spline

Monotonic interpolating splines
hmd.mx

Read demographic data from the Human Mortality Database
median

Median
aus.fert

Australian fertility data
life.expectancy

Estimate life expectancy from mortality rates
mean.demogdata

Mean and median functions for data of class demogdata
simulate.fmforecast

Simulate future sample paths from functional demographic model forecasts.
smooth.demogdata

Create smooth demogdata functions
forecast.fdm

Forecast functional demographic model.
summary.fdm

Summary for functional demographic model or Lee-Carter model
coherentfdm

Coherent functional demographic model for grouped data
plot.fmforecast

Plot forecasts from a functional demographic modell
plot.fmres

Plot residuals from fitted demographic model