taylor-law-mortality
provides the R source code used in the paper:
Cohen, Bohk-Ewald, Rau (2018). Gompertz, Makeham, and Siler models explain Taylor’s law in human mortality data. Demographic Research 38(29): 773-842
The code needs to be executed in four steps, as defined by step-*.R
files in the root directory.
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The
.R
files in./dumps/
contain empty lists due to copyrights. You will need to put in mortality data yourself. See comments instep-1-mortality-parameter-estimation.R
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Make sure you have configured the correct paths (in each of the four
step-*.R
files).
Run the step-*.R
scripts in the root directory in the prescribed order.
If you use this code for academic research, please cite the above paper.
Please note that this source code is an academic project. We welcome any issues and pull requests.
The source code of taylor-law-mortality
is published under the GNU General Public License version 3.