infantMortality {bayesRecon}

Infant Mortality grouped time series dataset

Description

A yearly grouped time series dataset, from 1901 to 2003, of infant mortality counts (deaths) in Australia; disaggregated by state (see below), and sex (male and female).

Usage

infantMortality

Format

List of time series of class ts.

Details

States: New South Wales (NSW), Victoria (VIC), Queensland (QLD), South Australia (SA), Western Australia (WA), Northern Territory (NT), Australian Capital Territory (ACT), and Tasmania (TAS).

Source

hts package CRAN

References

Hyndman, R.J., Ahmed, R.A., Athanasopoulos, G., Shang, H.L. (2011). Optimal combination forecasts for hierarchical time series. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 55(9), 2579-2589.