Exploring Excess Death (part 5)
I investigate alternative methods for estimating excess death using ONS weekly registration data from 2010 - 2023
Method #3: Subtracting The Seasonal Mean
So here we are at the third method and what I shall be doing today is subtracting the de-trended seasonal mean series as described in part 4 from observed weekly counts for all cause death for England & Wales. This is a stationary series in time analysis lingo meaning it doesn’t trend upward or downward in the lon…