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Table 5 Mean and variance of forecast error in life expectancy

From: A multi-country comparison of stochastic models of breast cancer mortality with P-splines smoothing approach

Country SLC FDM BMS
Mean Variance Mean Variance Mean Variance
China 0.015969 0.007437 −0.58973 0.01647 0.507574 0.017841
Pakistan 0.012938 0.000478 0.044085 0.000288 0.003414 0.000489
India −0.30533 0.023026 −0.24113 0.020099 −0.32129 0.023243
Thailand −0.36042 0.006641 0.044443 0.006649 −0.57447 0.010475
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BMC Medical Research Methodology

ISSN: 1471-2288

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