Simulation and sensitivity analysis of the choice of open interval, the methods of open interval, the methods of estimating life expectancy, completeness and 6 in the SEG method of estimating mortality

Death distribution methods, particularly the Generalized Growth Balance (GGB) and the Synthetic Extinct Generations (SEG) methods, have been observed to lead to the most accurate estimates when estimating mortality [1]. The more general version of the SEG method corrects for differential coverage of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Msemburi, Willliam
Other Authors: Dorrington, Rob
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/5893