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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

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