The COVID-19 Pandemic and its Effects on Swedish Mortality

The COVID-19 Pandemic and its Effects on Swedish Mortality

This thesis analyses the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on Swedish mortality during 2020 by investigating whether it has resulted in excess mortality. This is done using a stochastic mortality projection model from the Lee-Carter framework and by assuming the number of deaths follows a Poisson distribu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Voghera, Siri, Tepe, Özlem
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Uppsala universitet, Statistiska institutionen 2021
Subjects:
COVID-19
Excess mortality
Mortality forecasting
Lee-Carter model
Bootstrap
Probability Theory and Statistics
Sannolikhetsteori och statistik
Social Sciences
Samhällsvetenskap
Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-446239

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