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demography (version 1.11)

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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1.11

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GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Rob Hyndman

Last Published

January 31st, 2012

Functions in demography (1.11)

extract.years

Extract some years from a demogdata object
simulate.fmforecast

Simulate future sample paths from functional demographic model forecasts.
aus.fert

Australian fertility data
forecast.fdmpr

Forecast coherent functional demographic model.
isfe

Integrated Squared Forecast Error for models of various orders
models

Show model information for the forecast coefficients in FDM models.
sex.ratio

Compute sex ratios from mortality rates
cm.spline

Monotonic interpolating splines
set.upperage

Combine the upperages of a demogdata object.
summary.fdm

Summary for functional demographic model or Lee-Carter model
coherentfdm

Coherent functional demographic model for grouped data
life.expectancy

Estimate life expectancy from mortality rates
forecast.lca

Forecast demogdata data using Lee-Carter method.
tfr

Compute total fertility rate from fertility rates
plot.lifetable

Plot life expectancy from lifetable
fdm

Functional demographic model
extract.ages

Extract some ages from a demogdata object
median

Median
plot.errorfdm

Plot differences between actuals and estimates from fitted demographic model
demogdata

Create demogdata object from raw data matrices
plot.fmforecast

Plot forecasts from a functional demographic modell
fr.mort

French mortality data
lca

Model mortality data using Lee-Carter approach
compare.demogdata

Evaluation of demographic forecast accuracy
residuals.fdm

Compute residuals and fitted values from functional demographic model or Lee-Carter model
hmd.mx

Read demographic data from the Human Mortality Database
demography-package

Forecasting mortality and fertility data
mean.demogdata

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

Combine two demogdata objects into one demogdata object
lifetable

Construct lifetables from mortality rates
plot.fmres

Plot residuals from fitted demographic model
netmigration

Calculate net migration from mortality and fertility data
plot.demogdata

Plot age-specific demographic functions
read.demogdata

Read demographic data and construct demogdata object
forecast.fdm

Forecast functional demographic model.
smooth.demogdata

Create smooth demogdata functions
pop.sim

Population simulation