Forecast reconciliation meets compositional data analysis: A study of Italian cause-specific age-at-death
预测协调与成分数据分析:意大利分死因死亡年龄研究
We introduce a novel approach that integrates compositional data analysis (CoDA) in the forecasting of hierarchical and grouped time series and apply it to improve mortality forecasts. By leveraging the inherent decomposition of mortality data by cause of death and sex, our framework addresses key challenges in mortality forecasting, ensuring internal coherence across different levels of aggregation while maintaining high predictive accuracy. Our empirical results on Italian…