Trends and forecasts in cause-specific mortality

Mortality forecasting models are typically limited in that they pertain only to national death rates, predict only all-cause mortality, or do not capture and utilize the correlation among diseases. I have developed a novel Bayesian hierarchical model that jointly forecasts cause- specific death rate...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Foreman, Kyle Jayson
Other Authors: Ezzati, Majid ; Best, Nicky
Published: Imperial College London 2015
Online Access:https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.754642