Forecasting Age Distribution of Deaths: Cumulative Distribution Function Transformation
Shang, H. & Haberman, S. ORCID: 0000-0003-2269-9759 (2025).
Forecasting Age Distribution of Deaths: Cumulative Distribution Function Transformation.
Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, 122,
pp. 249-261.
doi: 10.1016/j.insmatheco.2025.03.007
Abstract
Like density functions, period life-table death counts are nonnegative and have a constrained integral, and thus live in a constrained nonlinear space. Implementing established modelling and forecasting methods without obeying these constraints can be problematic for such nonlinear data. We introduce cumulative distribution function transformation to forecast the life-table death counts. Using the Japanese life-table death counts obtained from the Japanese Mortality Database (2024), we evaluate the point and interval forecast accuracies of the proposed approach, which compares favourably to an existing compositional data analytic approach. The improved forecast accuracy of life-table death counts is of great interest to demographers for estimating age-specific survival probabilities and life expectancy and actuaries for determining temporary annuity prices for different ages and maturities.
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Additional Information: | This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons CC-BY license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Publisher Keywords: | Constrained functional time series; Life-table death counts; Principal component analysis; Quantile density; Single-premium temporary annuity |
Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GF Human ecology. Anthropogeography H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions Q Science > QA Mathematics R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
Departments: | Bayes Business School Bayes Business School > Actuarial Science & Insurance |
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