Len Smith

Overview

Len Smith is a demographer at the Australian Centre for Population Research and the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, Australian National University. His work spans population health, epidemiology, and mortality projection methodology in the Australian context.

Key Contributions / Features

• Co-authored Booth, Maindonald, and Smith (2002), contributing demographic and epidemiological expertise on Australian mortality trends and the structural interpretation of age-time interactions across the 1907–1999 period.
• Co-authored Booth, Tickle, and Smith (2005), a 10-country out-of-sample evaluation of Lee-Carter variants formalizing the jump-off bias decomposition.

Related

• Lee-Carter Model
• Heather Booth
• John Maindonald

Sources

• Booth Maindonald and Smith 2002 — Age-Time Interactions in Mortality Projections Applying Lee-Carter to Australia
• Booth Tickle and Smith 2005 — Evaluation of the Variants of the Lee-Carter Method of Forecasting Mortality A Multi-Country Comparison