Multivariate Time Series Projections of Parameterized Age-Specific Fertility Rates
参数化年龄别生育率的多元时间序列预测
Projection of individual age-specific fertility rates is a forecasting problem of high dimension. We solve this dimensionality problem by using parametric curves to approximate the annual age-specific rates and a multivariate time series model to forecast the curve parameters. These yield forecasts of future fertility curves, which are then used to compute age-specific fertility rate forecasts. This reduces the dimensionality of the forecasting problem and also guarantees…