expectancy {BayesMortalityPlus}

Generic expectancy function

Description

Generic function to expectancy method.

Usage

expectancy(x, ...)

Arguments

x

Object of one of these class: HP, DLM, BLC, ClosedHP, ClosedDLM, BLC, or PredBLC.

...

Further arguments passed to or from other methods.

Details

This function computes the life expectancy given by:

e_x = \sum tp_x

where:

tp_x = p_0 x p_1 x ... x p_x

Value

A data.frame and (if graph = TRUE) a plot for HP, DLM, ClosedHP and ClosedDLM methods. A list that contains three vectors with the fitted values of life expectancy and the lower and upper limits of the credible intervals for each year used in fitted model or for the prediction, for BLC and PredBLC methods.

See Also

expectancy.HP(), expectancy.DLM() and expectancy.BLC().