Tim Riffe

Overview

Tim Riffe is a demographer at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR), Rostock. His research spans demographic methods, mortality analysis, and open demographic data infrastructure. He is a co-author of Remund et al. (2018) and contributed to the MortHump R package implementation on CRAN.

Key Contributions / Features

• Remund, Camarda, and Riffe (2018, Demography): Co-author; contributed to the MortHump R package (CRAN) implementing the SSE+cause-deletion hump decomposition method applied to U.S. cause-of-death data.
• Broadly known in the demographic methods community for data infrastructure work and R package development (DemoDecomp, HMDHFDplus, and others enabling programmatic access to Human Mortality Database and Human Fertility Database).

Related

• Adrien Remund
• Carlo G. Camarda
• Young Adult Mortality Hump

Sources

• Remund et al. 2018 — A Cause-of-Death Decomposition of Young Adult Excess Mortality