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demography (version 1.12)

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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1.12

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GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Rob Hyndman

Last Published

April 24th, 2012

Functions in demography (1.12)

tfr

Compute total fertility rate from fertility rates
plot.fmforecast

Plot forecasts from a functional demographic modell
cm.spline

Monotonic interpolating splines
demogdata

Create demogdata object from raw data matrices
mean.demogdata

Mean and median functions for data of class demogdata
forecast.fdm

Forecast functional demographic model.
hmd.mx

Read demographic data from the Human Mortality Database
forecast.fdmpr

Forecast coherent functional demographic model.
aus.fert

Australian fertility data
isfe

Integrated Squared Forecast Error for models of various orders
plot.fmres

Plot residuals from fitted demographic model
update.fmforecast

Updating functional demographic models and coherent functional demographic models.
plot.demogdata

Plot age-specific demographic functions
compare.demogdata

Evaluation of demographic forecast accuracy
demography-package

Forecasting mortality and fertility data
coherentfdm

Coherent functional demographic model for grouped data
set.upperage

Combine the upperages of a demogdata object.
extract.ages

Extract some ages from a demogdata object
netmigration

Calculate net migration from mortality and fertility data
pop.sim

Population simulation
plot.lifetable

Plot life expectancy from lifetable
fr.mort

French mortality data
sex.ratio

Compute sex ratios from mortality rates
smooth.demogdata

Create smooth demogdata functions
lca

Model mortality data using Lee-Carter approach
combine.demogdata

Combine two demogdata objects into one demogdata object
median

Median
summary.fdm

Summary for functional demographic model or Lee-Carter model
plot.errorfdm

Plot differences between actuals and estimates from fitted demographic model
forecast.lca

Forecast demogdata data using Lee-Carter method.
residuals.fdm

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

Construct lifetables from mortality rates
models

Show model information for the forecast coefficients in FDM models.
read.demogdata

Read demographic data and construct demogdata object
extract.years

Extract some years from a demogdata object
life.expectancy

Estimate life expectancy from mortality rates
fdm

Functional demographic model
simulate.fmforecast

Simulate future sample paths from functional demographic model forecasts.