1st Edition
A Practical Guide to Age-Period-Cohort Analysis The Identification Problem and Beyond
By Wenjiang Fu
Copyright 2018
250 Pages
by
Chapman & Hall
250 Pages
50 B/W Illustrations
by
Chapman & Hall
250 Pages
50 B/W Illustrations
by
Chapman & Hall
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Age-Period-Cohort analysis has a wide range of applications, from chronic disease incidence and mortality data in public health and epidemiology, to many social events (birth, death, marriage, etc) in social sciences and demography, and most recently investment, healthcare and pension contribution in economics and finance. Although APC analysis has been studied for the past 40 years and a lot of... Read more
1. Motivation of Age - Period - Cohort Analysis Examples and Applications What Is Age-Period-Cohort Analysis? Why Age - Period - Cohort Analysis? Four Data Sets in APC Studies Special Features of These Data Sets Data Source R Programming and Video Online Instruction Suggested Readings Exercises 2. Preliminary Analysis of Age - Period - Cohort Data - Graphic Methods D Plots in Age, Period, and Cohort D Plot in Age, Period, and Cohort Suggested Readings Exercises 3. Preliminary Analysis of Age - Period - Cohort Data - Basic Models Linear Models for Continuous Response Single Factor Models Two Factor Models R Programming for Linear Models Loglinear Models for Discrete Response Single Factor Models Two Factor Models R Programming for Loglinear Models Suggested Readings Exercises 4. Age-Period-Cohort Model - Complexity with Linearly Dependent Covariates Lexis Diagram and Pattern in Age, Period, and Cohort Lexis Diagram and Dependence among Age, Period, and Cohort Explicit Pattern in APC Data with Identical Spans in Age and Period Implicit Pattern in APC Data with Unequal Spans in Age and Period Complexity in Full Age - Period - Cohort Model Regression with Linearly Dependent Covariates Age-Period-Cohort Models and the Complexity R Programming for Generating the Design Matrix for APC Models Suggested Readings Exercises 5. Age-Period-Cohort Model - The Identification Problem and Various Approaches The Identification Problem and Confusion Two Popular Approaches to the Identification Problem Constraint Approach Estimable Function Ap
Biography
Wenjiang Fu
"The book is intended for graduates and researchers: biostatisticians, public health economists and actuaries will find this book relevant to their work and even researchers on demography and life tables will benefit." ~Royal Statistical Society
