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demography (version 1.10)

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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1.10

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GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Rob Hyndman

Last Published

October 18th, 2011

Functions in demography (1.10)

plot.demogdata

Plot age-specific demographic functions
extract.years

Extract some years from a demogdata object
demography-package

Forecasting mortality and fertility data
combine.demogdata

Combine two demogdata objects into one demogdata object
coherentfdm

Coherent functional demographic model for grouped data
forecast.lca

Forecast demogdata data using Lee-Carter method.
hmd.mx

Read demographic data from the Human Mortality Database
lifetable

Construct lifetables from mortality rates
extract.ages

Extract some ages from a demogdata object
forecast.fdmpr

Forecast coherent functional demographic model.
life.expectancy

Estimate life expectancy from mortality rates
netmigration

Calculate net migration from mortality and fertility data
plot.errorfdm

Plot differences between actuals and estimates from fitted demographic model
demogdata

Create demogdata object from raw data matrices
pop.sim

Population simulation
read.demogdata

Read demographic data and construct demogdata object
lca

Model mortality data using Lee-Carter approach
fr.mort

French mortality data
models

Show model information for the forecast coefficients in FDM models.
plot.fmforecast

Plot forecasts from a functional demographic modell
residuals.fdm

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

Integrated Squared Forecast Error for models of various orders
aus.fert

Australian fertility data
sex.ratio

Compute sex ratios from mortality rates
forecast.fdm

Forecast functional demographic model.
simulate.fmforecast

Simulate future sample paths from functional demographic model forecasts.
fdm

Functional demographic model
tfr

Compute total fertility rate from fertility rates
set.upperage

Combine the upperages of a demogdata object.
cm.spline

Monotonic interpolating splines
summary.fdm

Summary for functional demographic model or Lee-Carter model
mean.demogdata

Mean and median functions for data of class demogdata
plot.lifetable

Plot life expectancy from lifetable
smooth.demogdata

Create smooth demogdata functions
compare.demogdata

Evaluation of demographic forecast accuracy
plot.fmres

Plot residuals from fitted demographic model
median

Median