oldage-paper-code-released
Code for Feehan, Dennis M. "Separating the Signal From the Noise: Evidence for Deceleration in Old-Age Death Rates." Demography 55.6 (2018): 2025-2044.; earlier arxiv versions.
This code makes use of the mortfit R package.
Notes
- you will have to configure the code to run on your machine; in particular, please be sure to set the various directory-related variables correctly. These are at the top of the file
- in particular, you will have to register for the Kannisto-Thatcher database and download the data from their website; please set the variable
kt.dir
the directory that has all of the raw datafiles