[R] Package "demography" - calculating quintiles of survival probabilities

[David Winsemius]

On Apr 20, 2012, at 7:16 AM, jolo999 wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> I am using the package "demography" from Rob Hyndman for the
> Lee-Carter-Model. It is an amazing powerful tool but I am struggling  
> with
> one issue:
>
>
> *I want to compute different quintiles for the cumulative survival
> probability derived from the Lee-Carter-Forecast (e.g. the 50%- 
> quintile,
> 75%-quintile and 99%-quintile) for the next 10 years. *
>

The fact that you appear not to know the difference between the words  
'quantile' and 'quintile' makes me wonder whether what you are really  
asking for are confidence intervals at chosen significance levels?

>
> I am sure the package possess this functionality but I didn't find  
> any way
> to calculate quintile values.
>
>
> Hope you can help me!
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Jonas
>
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David Winsemius, MD
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