Projections seminar
On 18th May 2010 we ran a seminar on mortality projections for clients, including hands-on use of the Projections Toolkit. The seminar slides and notes can be found in the ZIP file on the right.
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We have often written about how modelling the force of mortality, μx, is superior to using the rate of mortality, qx.
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Trends in cause of death can be an instructive way of looking at past mortality, although we have previously seen that we have to be very careful that an apparent "trend" is not due to changes in recording. Leaving aside the problems of shifting classification over time, what of the categories themselves?
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