A General Age-Specific Mortality Model With an Example Indexed by Child Mortality or Both Child and Adult Mortality.

ABSTRACT: The majority of countries in Africa and nearly one-third of all countries require mortality models to infer the complete age schedules of mortality that are required to conduct population estimates, projections/forecasts, and other tasks in demography and epidemiology. Models that relate child mortality to mortality at other ages are important because almost all countries have measures of child mortality. A general, parameterizable component model (SVD-Comp) of mortality is defined using the singular value decomposition and calibrated to the relationship between child or child/adult mortality and mortality at other ages in the observed mortality schedules of the Human Mortality Database. Cross-validation is used to validate the model, and the predictive performance of the model is compared

SUBMITTER: Clark SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6594863 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature