2 papers
stat.ME2026
Structured dispersion modelling for mortality data using a Conway--Maxwell--Poisson specification
Jackie Siaw Tze Wong, Emiliano A. Valdez
Mortality models that attempt to capture dispersion typically assume a fixed dispersion structure, an assumption that is rarely satisfied in practice and that can lead to miscalibr…
stat.ME2026
Bayesian mortality forecasting with a Conway--Maxwell--Poisson specification
Jackie Siaw Tze Wong, Emiliano A. Valdez
This paper presents a novel approach to stochastic mortality modelling by using the Conway--Maxwell--Poisson (CMP) distribution to model death counts. Unlike standard Poisson or ne…