Package index • MortalityLaws

Package

Overview of the package and the bundled data.

MortalityLaws-package MortalityLaws: MortalityLaws: Parametric Mortality Models, Life Tables and HMD

Fitting and diagnostics

Fit mortality laws to data, then interrogate the fit.

MortalityLaw(): Fit Mortality Laws
predict(<MortalityLaw>): Predict from a Fitted Mortality Law
summary(<MortalityLaw>): Summarise a Fitted Mortality Law
print(<MortalityLaw>): Print a Fitted Mortality Law
print(<summary.MortalityLaw>): Print a MortalityLaw Summary
logLik(<MortalityLaw>): Extract the Log-Likelihood of a Fitted Mortality Law
AIC(<MortalityLaw>): Extract the AIC of a Fitted Mortality Law
deviance(<MortalityLaw>): Extract the Deviance of a Fitted Mortality Law
df.residual(<MortalityLaw>): Extract the Residual Degrees of Freedom of a Fitted Mortality Law
dispersion(): Dispersion of a Fitted Mortality Law
plot(<MortalityLaw>): Plot a Fitted Mortality Law

Life tables and conversion

Build life tables from mortality rates and convert between mortality functions.

LifeTable(): Compute Life Tables from Mortality Data
LawTable(): Compute Life Tables from Parameters of a Mortality Law
convertFx(): Convert Life Table Indicators
plot(<LifeTable>): Plot a Life Table
print(<LifeTable>): Print a Life Table
plot(<convertFx>): Plot a Life Table Indicator Conversion
print(<convertFx>): Print a Converted Life Table Indicator

Data access and catalogues

Pull mortality data from the HMD family of databases and browse what is available.

ReadHMD(): Download The Human Mortality Database (HMD)
ReadJMD(): Download the Japanese Mortality Database (JMD)
ReadCHMD(): Download the Canadian Human Mortality Database (CHMD)
ReadAHMD(): Download the Australian Human Mortality Database (AHMD)
print(<ReadHMD>): Print a ReadHMD Object
print(<ReadJMD>): Print a ReadJMD Object
print(<ReadCHMD>): Print a ReadCHMD Object
print(<ReadAHMD>): Print a ReadAHMD Object
availableHMD(): Check Data Availability in HMD
availableLaws(): Check the Available Mortality Laws
print(<availableLaws>): Print the Available Mortality Laws
availableLF(): Check Available Loss Functions
print(<availableLF>): Print Available Loss Functions
ahmd: MortalityLaws Test Data
HMD_sample: HMD sample Data object generated by the ReadHMD() function.
JMD_sample: JMD sample Data object generated by the ReadJMD() function.
CHMD_sample: CHMD sample Data object generated by the ReadCHMD() function.
AHMD_sample: AHMD sample Data object generated by the ReadAHMD() function.

The 38 mortality laws

The parametric models themselves, evaluated age by age.

demoivre(): De Moivre Mortality Law - 1725
gompertz(): Gompertz Mortality Law - 1825
gompertz0(): Gompertz Mortality Law - informative parameterization
invgompertz(): Inverse-Gompertz Mortality Law - informative parameterization
makeham(): Makeham Mortality Law - 1860
makeham0(): Makeham Mortality Law - informative parameterization
opperman(): Opperman Mortality Law - 1870
thiele(): Thiele Mortality Law - 1871
wittstein(): Wittstein Mortality Law - 1883
weibull(): Weibull Mortality Law - 1939
invweibull(): Inverse-Weibull Mortality Law
perks(): Perks Model - 1932
steffensen(): Steffensen Model - 1930
neggompertz(): Negative Gompertz Mortality Law - 1871
pareto_2(): Pareto II Mortality Law - 1954
scholey_shifted_power(): Shifted Power Mortality Law - 2019
scholey(): Scholey Mortality Law - 2019
vandermaen(): Van der Maen Model - 1943
vandermaen2(): Van der Maen 2 Model - 1943
strehler_mildvan(): Strehler-Mildvan Model - 1960
beard(): Beard Model - 1971
beard_makeham(): Makeham-Beard Model - 1971
ggompertz(): Gamma-Gompertz Model - 1979
quadratic(): Quadratic Model
siler(): Siler Mortality Law - 1979
HP(): Heligman-Pollard Mortality Law - 8 parameters - 1980
HP2(): Heligman-Pollard 2 Mortality Law - 8 parameters
HP3(): Heligman-Pollard 3 Mortality Law - 9 parameters
HP4(): Heligman-Pollard 4 Mortality Law - 9 parameters
martinelle(): Martinelle Model - 1987
rogersplanck(): Rogers-Planck Model - 1983
carriere1(): Carriere Mortality Law - 1992
carriere2(): Carriere Mortality Law - 1992
kostaki(): Kostaki Model - 1992
kannisto(): Kannisto Mortality Law - 1998
kannisto_makeham(): Kannisto-Makeham Mortality Law - 1998
makeham_logquad(): Makeham Log-Quadratic Mortality Law (GM(1,3)) - 1988
gompertz_logquad(): Gompertz Log-Quadratic Mortality Law (GM(0,3)) - 1988