RESEARCHERS have developed a method of forecasting mortality rates that incorporates unusual events such as a bird flu epidemic or extreme weather.
Iain Currie and James Kirkby have introduced events which can alter mortality rates in particular periods, such as disease epidemics – so-called "period shocks" - into mortality models. In the pas...
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