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The demography package for R contains functions for various demographic analyses. It provides facilities for demographic statistics, modelling and forecasting. In particular, it implements lifetable calculations; Lee-Carter modelling and variants; functional data analysis of mortality rates, fertility rates, net migration numbers; and stochastic population forecasting.
Examples
funcfor.R: analysis from Hyndman and Ullah (2005)
adelaide.R: analysis from a talk given to the Australian Population Network in Adelaide, November 2004.
Other shorter examples are given in the help files.
Extra data are available in the addb package.
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The forecast package for R provides methods and tools for displaying and analysing univariate time series forecasts including exponential smoothing via state space models and automatic ARIMA modelling. It also includes a handful of data sets from the Time Series Data Library. The package is described in Hyndman and Khandakar (2008).