rainbow (version 1.1)

Francemortality: French mortality data

Description

Age-specific log mortality rates for France male, observed from ages 0 to 100 between years 1899 and 2005.

Usage

data(Francemortality)
data(Francesmoothmortality)

format

An object of class fd and fts.

source

The Human Mortality Database (http://www.mortality.org).

Details

Francesmoothmortality is the smoothed version of Francemortality data. The smoothing technique is the penalized regression spline with monotonic constraint, described thoroughly in Hyndman and Ullah (2007).

References

H. Booth and R. J. Hyndman and L. Tickle and P. De Jong (2006) "Lee-Carter mortality forecasting: a multi-country comparison of variants and extensions", Demographic Research, 15, 289-310. R. J. Hyndman and M. S. Ullah (2006) "Robust forecasting of mortality and fertility rates: A functional data approach", Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 57(10), 4942-4956. R. J. Hyndman and H. Booth (2008) " Stochastic population forecasts using functional data models for mortality, fertility and migration", International Journal of Forecasting, 24(3), 323-342.

Examples

plot(Francemortality)
plot(Francesmoothmortality)