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Abstract

A common feature in the modelling and extrapolation of the trends in mortality rates over time, based on fitted parametric structures, has tended to involve the treatment of a structured fitted main effects period component (with possibly a cohort component) as a random effects time series. In this paper, we follow the lead of Haberman and Renshaw (Insurance Math Econ 50:309–333, 2012) and other authors in modelling and forecasting mortality improvement rates over time, rather than mortality rates. In this context, we assume linear parametric structures for mortality improvement rates, and we examine the feasibility of modelling the main period effects (and possibly any cohort effects) as a random effect from the outset. We argue that this leads to a more unified approach to model fitting and extrapolation.

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Publisher Keywords:	Mortality improvements, Random efects modelling, Hierarchical generalised linear modelling, Age heteroscedasticity, Mortality forecasting
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor H Social Sciences > HF Commerce H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform
Departments:	Bayes Business School > Actuarial Science & Insurance
SWORD Depositor:	Symplectic Administrator

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