A comparison of parametric models for mortality graduation. Application to mortality data for the Valencia Region (Spain).
Ana Debón, Francisco Montes, Ramón Sala (2005)
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The parametric graduation of mortality data has as its objective the satisfactory estimation of the death rates based on mortality data but using an age-dependent function whose parameters are adjusted from the crude rates obtainable directly from the data. This paper proposes a revision of the most commonly used parametric models and compares the result obtained with each of them when they are applied to the mortality data for the Valencia Region. As a result of the comparison, we conclude...