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The Intrinsic Estimator, Alternative Estimates, and Predictions of Mortality Trends: A Comment on Masters, Hummer, Powers, Beck, Lin, and Finch

In this article, we discuss a study by Masters et al. (2014), published in Demography. Masters and associates estimated age, period, and cohort (APC) effects on U.S. mortality rates between 1959 and 2009 using the intrinsic estimator (IE). We first argue that before applying the IE, a grounded theor...

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Autores principales: te Grotenhuis, Manfred, Pelzer, Ben, Luo, Liying, Schmidt-Catran, Alexander W.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5016552/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27173796
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13524-016-0476-8