title: Applications of the Heligman/Pollard model mortality schedule.
abstract: "The United Nations working manual for MORTPAK-Lite, a software package for demographic measurement, includes among its 16 computer programs a routine (UNABR) that graduates a set of age-specific probabilities of dying...for the standard set of five-year age groups into a set of single-year probabilities of dying.  The graduation is effected with an eight-parameter 'law of mortality' known as the Heligman/Pollard model mortality schedule.  Model mortality schedules...are useful in mortality analysis and forecasting.  Several such applications are illustrated in this article:  a historical time-series analysis, a forecasting application, studies of causes of death, spatial differences and sex-specific mortality disaggregated by race."  The geographical focus is on the United States, England, and Australia.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rogers
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Gard
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000569:Americas; D001315:Australia; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D004739:England; D005060:Europe; D005843:Geography; D008722:Methods; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D009026:Mortality; D009656:North America; D010139:Pacific Islands; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011336:Probability; D012106:Research; D012737:Sex Factors; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D006113:United Kingdom; D014481:United States
keywords: Age Factors; Americas; Australia; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; England; Estimation Technics; Europe; Geographic Factors; Methodological Studies; Models, Theoretical; Mortality; North America; Northern America; Northern Europe; Oceania; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics; Probability; Research Methodology; Sex Factors; Statistical Studies; Studies; United Kingdom; United States