Data graduation based on statistical time series methods

✍ Scribed by Vı́ctor M. Guerrero; Rodrigo Juárez; Pilar Poncela

• Book ID: 104301588
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 114 KB
• Volume: 52
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0167-7152
• DOI: 10.1016/s0167-7152(00)00213-3

✦ Synopsis

On the basis of some suitable assumptions, we show that the best linear unbiased estimator of the true mortality rates has the form of Whittaker's solution to the graduation problem. Some statistical tools are also proposed to help reducing subjectivity when graduating a dataset.