Thursday, March 30 / 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM   •   Santa Anita AB

Session 35:
Statistical/Computational Techniques in Demography

Chair: Scott M. Lynch, Princeton University
Discussant: Kenneth C. Land, Duke University

  1. The Impact of Duration on Disability Transitions: Evidence from the Cardiovascular Health StudyLiming Cai, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), CDC ; James Lubitz, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), CDC ; Nathaniel Schenker, National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), CDC ; Paula Diehr, University of Washington ; Alice Arnold, University of Washington ; Linda Fried, Johns Hopkins University

  2. The Population Life TableJames R. Carey, University of California, Davis ; Hans Muller, University of California, Davis ; Jane-Ling Wang, University of California, Davis

  3. Using the Heterogeneity Model and the Lee-Carter Method to Estimate Mortality Surfaces at Old AgesNan Li, United Nations ; James W. Vaupel, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

  4. Nonparametric Estimation of Disability-Free Life Expectancy Using Period Life Table and Cross-Sectional Disability SurveySamir Soneji, Princeton University ; Kosuke Imai, Princeton University

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