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An object of class "bage_ssvd" holding scaled SVD components derived from data from the Human Mortality Database. HMD holds 5 components.

Usage

HMD

Format

Object of class "bage_ssvd".

Versions:

  • "v2025" (default) Data published on 2025-09-25, all years

  • "v2025-50" Data published on 2025-09-25, 1950 and later

  • "v2024" Data published on 2024-02-26, all years

Source

Derived from data from the Human Mortality Database. Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Germany), University of California, Berkeley (USA), and French Institute for Demographic Studies (France). Code to create HMD is in folder data-raw/ssvd_hmd in the source code for the bage package.

See also

  • Scaled SVDs Overview of scaled SVDs implemented in bage

  • SVD() A prior based on a scaled SVD