Dowd, Kevin; Cairns, Andrew; Blake, David P.; Coughlan, … - 2012
The mortality rate dynamics between two related but different-sized populations are modeled consistently using a new … stochastic mortality model that we call the gravity model. The larger spreads (or deviations) relative to the evolution of the … population’s mortality rates move in line with those of the larger population in the long run. This is important where it is …
