Model confidence sets and forecast combination: an application to age-specific mortality

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Journal of Population Sciences

Table 1 A list of the 19 models considered

Family of models	Label	Model
Renshaw-Haberman	1	Lee-Carter model with Poisson error structure
	2	Renshaw-Haberman model
	3	Age-period-cohort model
Cairns-Blake-Dowe	4	Cairns-Blake-Dowe model
	5	M6 model
	6	M7 model
	7	M8 model
	8	Plat model
Lee-Carter	9	Lee-Carter model with Gaussian error structure
	10	Booth-Maindonald-Smith model
	11	Lee-Carter model with adjustment of life expectancy
	12	Lee-Carter model with no adjustment to the score
Functional time series	13	Functional data model
	14	Robust functional data model
	15	Product-ratio model
	16	Multivariate functional data model
	17	Multilevel functional data model
Model averaging	18	MCS (T_max,M) to select equal-weighted models
	19	MCS (T_R,M) to select equal-weighted models