Strength & Weakness of Lee-Carter Models

This paper investigates the identifiability and estimation method of the Lee-Carter model and its several extensions. In particular, it focuses on the estimation method of the plugin Lee-Carter models. The main finding of this paper is that after adjusting the proposed objective functions for the plug-in Lee-Carter models, the goodness of fit is improved.

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