Estimation of Life Expectancy at Birth of Brazilian States in
2008 through Generalized Additive Models for Location,
Scale and Shape
Alisson de Oliveira Silva 1
Luana Cecı́lia Meireles da Silva1
Wanessa Weridiana da Luz Freitas 1
Antônio Guedes Corrêa Gondim Filho1
The Life expectancy at birth is one of the most important demographic indicators. In Brazil
are there important variations of this indicator, once the country has significant levels of inequality. In this context was performed a molding of the life expectancy at birth of the Brazilian
states.
Keyword: Life expectancy at birth, Regression,Gamls.
1 UFPB.
e-mail: allysson [email protected]
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