Forecasting Mortality in Developed Countries Insights from a Statistical, Demographic and Epidemiological Perspective /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Tabeau, Ewa (Editor), Berg Jeths, Anneke van den (Editor), Heathcote, Christopher (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2001.
• Series: European Studies of Population, 9
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Business.; Management science.; Public health.; Epidemiology.; Population.; Demography.; Social Sciences.; Population Economics.; Public Health.; Business and Management, general.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.

Information on future mortality trends is essential for population forecasts, public health policy, actuarial studies, and many other purposes. Realising the importance of such needs, this volume contains contributions to the theory and practice of forecasting mortality in the relatively favourable...