Research
In this page I provide a short list (randomly ordered) of my research interests with some additional details and related documents.
Statistical approaches for reconstructing continuous series of mortality by causes of death (view more)
Exploring a general theory for the biodemography of human ageing (view more)
Mortality age trajectories within the phylogenetic tree
Modelling and decomposing vital rates: a non-parametric approach
Dissemination of R as a free software environment to demographers
Analysis of social contact data and mixing pattern relevant to the spread of infectious disease (view more)
Modal life span by leading causes of death in Canada
Identifying the Ruptures Shaping the Segmented Line of the Secular Trends in Maximum Life Expectancies (view more)
Modelling and Smoothing Mortality Surfaces and developing the related R package: MortalitySmooth (view more)
Smoothing Methods for the Analysis of Mortality Development (view more)
Modeling General Patterns of Digit Preference (view more)
Estimating the Reproductive Number of an Influenza Pandemic (view more)
Modelling and forecasting Age at death Distributions
A non-parametric approach to decompose the young adult mortality hump by causes of death
Life expectancy by socioeconomic status: which model fits best?
Modelling fertility rates by age, time and birth order from coarsely grouped data
Coherent forecasting of multiple-decrement life tables
Methodological issues in measuring alcohol consumption (view more)
Warping Models for Lifetime Distributions (view more)
Explained Variation in Models for Mortality Data (view more)