The paper entitled "Applying survival models to pensioner mortality data" was presented to the Institute of Actuaries' Sessional Meeting on 25th February 2008. Below are some electronic resources associated with this paper:
Draft copy of paper.
Presentation.
Reply to some misleading statements made during the discussion of the paper.
Package used to fit all survival models in the main body of the paper.
R source used to create graphs.
Interactive online tool for survival models.
C source for calculating force of mortality under reliability model.
Windows executable for calculating force of mortality under reliability model.
C source for integrating the survival curve for the Makeham-Beard model.
Windows executable for integrating the survival curve for the Makeham-Beard model.
C source for simulating the ruin-theory model of mortality.
Windows executable for simulating the ruin-theory model of mortality.