Saturday, September 4 / 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM   •   Room HS16

Session 104:
Methodological issues in mortality

Chair: Vladimir Canudas-Romo, Johns Hopkins University

  1. Forecasting mortality in the event of a structural change • Edviges Coelho, Statistics Portugal ; Luis Nunes, Universidade Nova de Lisboa

  2. Estimating smoking-attributable mortality in the United States: geographic variation • Andrew Fenelon, University of Pennsylvania ; Sam Preston, University of Pennsylvania

  3. “Achieving closure”: improving the estimation of life expectancy for small populations • Michael P. Grayer, University of London

  4. Analytical sensitivity analysis of the multistate life table: a new tool in public health research • Frans Willekens, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) ; Mieke Reuser, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI) ; Luc Bonneux, Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute (NIDI)

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