Reproducing results in Raftery, Lalic and Gerland (2014, Demographic Research),
"Joint Probabilistic Projection of Female and Male Life Expectancy"
Adrian Raftery, January 22, 2014.

 

The results in the article were all produced using the statistical language R. 
If you don't have R, download it from http://cran.r-project.org/. 



Estimating the model:
 To replicate the model parameter estimates shown in Table 1:
1. Download the hett, wpp2008 and bayesLife packages, and the 
packages on which they depend, from http://cran.r-project.org/
2. Run the R code in the file reproduceTable1.R.



Generating joint probabilistic projections of female and male life
expectancy for 158 countries:
Run the R code in the file reproduceProjections.R.
Warning: This may take several days of CPU time.