Search Results - subject:"Age/period/cohort models"

Constrained Estimators and Age-Period-Cohort Models

Robert M. Oâ€™Brien - In: Sociological Methods & Research 40 (2011) 3, pp. 419-452

If a researcher wants to estimate the individual age, period, and cohort coefficients in an age-period-cohort (APC) model, the method of choice is constrained regression, which includes the intrinsic estimator (IE) recently introduced by Yang and colleagues. To better understand these...

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On the Intrinsic Estimator and Constrained Estimators in Age-Period-Cohort Models

Fu, Wenjiang J.; Land, Kenneth C.; Yang, Yang - In: Sociological Methods & Research 40 (2011) 3, pp. 453-466

In studying temporally ordered rates of events, epidemiologists, demographers, and social scientists often find it useful to distinguish three different temporal dimensions, namely, age (age of the participants involved), time period (the calendar year or other temporal period for recording the...

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The age–period–cohort conundrum as two fundamental problems

Robert O’Brien - In: Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology 45 (2011) 6, pp. 1429-1444

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Economic pricing of mortality-linked securities in the presence of population basis risk

Zhou, Rui; Li, Johnny Siu-hang; Ken Seng Tan - In: The Geneva papers on risk and insurance - issues and … 36 (2011) 4, pp. 544-566

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Age-period-cohort modeling

Rutherford, Mark J.; Lambert, Paul C.; Thompson, John R. - In: Stata Journal 10 (2010) 4, pp. 606-627

Age–period–cohort models provide a useful method for modeling incidence and mortality rates. It is well known that age–period–cohort … his method for age–period–cohort models in the Epi package for R. In this article, a new command is introduced, apcfit … models suffer from an identifiability problem due to the exact relationship between the variables (cohort = period − age). In …

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