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A Compositional Approach to Modelling Cause-specific Mortality with Zero Counts
Zhe Michelle Dong, Han Lin Shang, Francis Hui +1
Understanding and forecasting mortality by cause is an essential branch of actuarial science, with wide-ranging implications for decision-makers in public policy and industry. To a…
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Forecasting age distribution of deaths across countries: Life expectancy and annuity valuation
Han Lin Shang, Steven Haberman
In this paper, we provide a comprehensive cross-country validation study of compositional mortality modeling and forecasting methods. Thus, we consider two one-to-one transformatio…
stat.ME2025
Modeling and forecasting subnational age distribution of death counts
Han Lin Shang, Cristian F. Jiménez-Varón
Existing mortality forecasting methods focus on age-specific mortality rates, which lie in an unconstrained space and overlook the distributional nature of life-table death counts.…