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The age pattern of mortality

Heligman and Pollard published a famous paper in 1980 with the title "The age pattern of mortality". In their paper they proposed an additive, three-component model of mortality:

\[q_x/p_x = f_I(x) + f_S(x) + f_A(x)\]

01 February 2016 Written by: Iain CurrieTags: Heligman-Pollard model, accident hump, shape penalty, smoothness penalty