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Journal of Population Sciences

Table 1 List of mortality models equations and parameter constraints

From: Mortality forecasting in Colombia from abridged life tables by sex

Mortality model

Formula

Parameter constraints

gnm R-package

 Lee-Carter (LC)

logit(qxt)=ax+bxkt

\(\sum _{x} b_{x} = 1\), \(k_{t_{0}} = 0\)

 Lee-Carter with two terms (LC2)

\(\text {logit}(q_{xt})=a_{x} + b_{x}^{1} k_{t}^{1} + b_{x}^{2}k_{t}^{2}\)

\(\sum _{x}b_{x}^{i} = 1, k_{t_{0}}^{i} = 0, i=1,2\)

 Lee-Carter with cohort (LCC)

\(\text {logit}(q_{xt})=a_{x} + b_{x}^{1}k_{t} + b_{x}^{2}\gamma _{c}\)

\(\sum _{x} b_{x}^{i} = 1\), \(k_{t_{0}} = 0\), \(\gamma _{c_{0}} = 0\)

 Age-Period-Cohort(APC)

logit(qxt)=ax+kt+γc

\(k_{t_{0}} = 0\), \(\gamma _{c_{0}} = 0\)

StMoMo R-package

 Renshaw-Haberman (RH)

\(\text {logit}(q_{xt})=a_{x}+b_{x}^{1} k_{t}^{1}+\gamma _{c}\)

\(\sum _{x} b_{x}^{1}=1,\sum _{t} k_{t}=0\), \(\sum _{c} \gamma _{c}=0\)

 Cairns-Blake-Dowd (CBD)

\(\text {logit}(q_{xt})= k_{t}^{1} + (x-\bar {x}) k_{t}^{2}\)

no constraints

 Generalization of CBD (M8)

\(\text {logit}(q_{xt})= k_{t}^{1} +(x - \bar {x})k_{t}^{2}+(x_{c} - x)\gamma _{c}\)

\(\sum _{c} \gamma _{c}=0\)