MortalitySmooth-package {MortalitySmooth}R Documentation

Smoothing Poisson counts with P-splines

Description

Smoothing one- and two-dimensional Poisson counts with P-splines specifically tailored to mortality data. Extra-Poisson variation can be accounted. Collection of mortality data and a specific function for selecting those data by country, sex, age and years.

Details

Package: MortalitySmooth
Type: Package
Version: 1.0
Date: 2009-09-17
License: What license is it under?
LazyLoad: yes

Author(s)

Carlo G Camarda

Maintainer: Carlo G Camarda <camarda@demogr.mpg.de>

References

Eilers and Marx (1996). Flexible Smoothing with B-splines and Penalties. Statistical Science. Vol. 11. 89-121.

Currie, Durban and Eilers (2004). Smoothing and forecasting mortality rates. Statistical Modelling. Vol. 4. 279-298.

Currie, Durban and Eilers (2006). Generalized linear array models with applications to multidimensional smoothing. JRSS. Vol. 68. 259-280.


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