Exploring Excess Death (part 2)
I investigate alternative methods for estimating excess death using ONS weekly registration data for 2010 - 2023
In part 1 of this series I was forced to take an unconventional approach to calculating excess death; unconventional, that is, in that I didn’t adopt the usual ONS method1 of subtracting prior 5-year means from observations on a matched week-by-week basis owing to the nature of the data in my pantry, being a short-span daily series.
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