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demography (version 1.13)

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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1.13

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GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Rob Hyndman

Last Published

August 6th, 2012

Functions in demography (1.13)

Functional demographic model

update.fmforecast

Updating functional demographic models and coherent functional demographic models.

French mortality data

Forecast demogdata data using Lee-Carter method.

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

Compute total fertility rate from fertility rates

Extract some ages from a demogdata object

Read demographic data and construct demogdata object

smooth.demogdata

Create smooth demogdata functions

Create demogdata object from raw data matrices

Australian fertility data

Coherent functional demographic model for grouped data

Mean and median functions for data of class demogdata

Calculate net migration from mortality and fertility data

Plot life expectancy from lifetable

simulate.fmforecast

Simulate future sample paths from functional demographic model forecasts.

compare.demogdata

Evaluation of demographic forecast accuracy

Compute sex ratios from mortality rates

demography-package

Forecasting mortality and fertility data

plot.fmforecast

Plot forecasts from a functional demographic modell

Summary for functional demographic model or Lee-Carter model

combine.demogdata

Combine two demogdata objects into one demogdata object

Construct lifetables from mortality rates

Read demographic data from the Human Mortality Database

life.expectancy

Estimate life expectancy from mortality rates

Monotonic interpolating splines

Combine the upperages of a demogdata object.

Plot differences between actuals and estimates from fitted demographic model

Integrated Squared Forecast Error for models of various orders

Plot residuals from fitted demographic model

Extract some years from a demogdata object

Show model information for the forecast coefficients in FDM models.

Forecast functional demographic model.

Model mortality data using Lee-Carter approach

Forecast coherent functional demographic model.

Plot age-specific demographic functions

Population simulation