Lifespan Disparity as an Additional Indicator for Evaluating Mortality Forecasts.

Evaluating the predictive ability of mortality forecasts is important yet difficult. Death rates and mean lifespan are basic life table functions typically used to analyze to what extent the forecasts deviate from their realized values. Although these parameters are useful for specifying precisely h...

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Publicado en:Demography (Springer Nature) Vol. 54; no. 4; pp. 1559 - 1578
Autores principales: Bohk-Ewald, Christina, Ebeling, Marcus, Rau, Roland
Formato: journal article
Publicado: Springer Nature Aug2017
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