https://github.com/mpascariu/MortalityLaws

Fit and compare the most popular human mortality laws - R package
https://github.com/mpascariu/MortalityLaws

actuarial-science demography download-hmd human-mortality-laws life-table mortality

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Fit and compare the most popular human mortality laws - R package

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/mpascariu/MortalityLaws
• Owner: mpascariu
• License: other
• Created: 2016-11-17T09:12:51.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-01-15T18:03:06.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-28T18:09:44.799Z (5 months ago)
• Topics: actuarial-science, demography, download-hmd, human-mortality-laws, life-table, mortality
• Language: R
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• Size: 6.31 MB
• Stars: 30
• Watchers: 5
• Forks: 8
• Open Issues: 6
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  • Readme: README.md
  • Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
  • License: LICENSE
  • Code of conduct: CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md

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README

        
# MortalityLaws: Parametric Mortality Models, Life Tables and HMD

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Fit the most popular human mortality `laws`, and construct full and abridged life tables given various input indices. A mortality law is a parametric function that describes the dying-out process of individuals in a population during a significant portion of their 

life spans. For a comprehensive review of the most important mortality laws see [Tabeau (2001)](https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47562-6_1). Function for downloading demographic data from the following sources are provided:

- the [Human Mortality Database (HMD)](https://www.mortality.org/)

- the [Australian Human Mortality Database (AHMD)](https://demography.cass.anu.edu.au/research/australian-human-mortality-database)

- the [Canadian Human Mortality Database (CHMD)](http://www.bdlc.umontreal.ca/chmd/index.htm)

- the [Japanese Mortality Database (JMD)](https://www.ipss.go.jp/p-toukei/JMD/index-en.asp)

## Installation

1. Make sure you have the most recent version of R

2. Run the following code in your R console 

```R

install.packages("MortalityLaws")

```

## Updating to the latest version of the package

You can track and contribute to the development of `MortalityLaws` on [GitHub](https://github.com/mpascariu/MortalityLaws). To install it:

1. Install the release version of `devtools` from CRAN with `install.packages("devtools")`.

2. Make sure you have a working development environment.

    * **Windows**: Install [Rtools](https://CRAN.R-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/).

    * **Mac**: Install `Xcode` from the Mac App Store.

    * **Linux**: Install a compiler and various development libraries (details vary across different flavors of Linux).

3. Install the development version of `MortalityLaws`.

   ```R

   devtools::install_github("mpascariu/MortalityLaws")

   ```

## Help

All functions are documented in the standard way, which means that once you load the package using ```library(MortalityLaws)``` you can just type ```?MortalityLaw``` to see the help file.