%T Age-time interactions in mortality projection: Applying Lee-Carter to Australia
%A John Maindonald
%A Heather Booth
%A Len Smith

%I Australian Demographic & Social Research Institute
%D 2001





%U https://apo.org.au/node/5141

%X Application of the Lee-Carter method to Australian data shows that model assumptions are not always met because of age-time interactions. 
In this article Heather Booth, John Maindonald and Len Smith adapt the Lee-Carter method to take account of departures from linearity in the dominant time component and the failure to satisfy the assumption of an invariant age component.
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