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Table 1 Parameter estimates for smoking and obesity from different specifications of the Lee-Carter model

From: Future healthy life expectancy among older adults in the US: a forecast based on cohort smoking and obesity history

  

Mortality

Net disability incidence

  

Model 1

Model 2

Model 3

Model 4

Model 5

Model 1

Model 2

Model 3

Model 4

Model 5

Male

Smoking

-

0.0266

-

0.0263

0.0668

-

0.0078

-

0.0036

0.0255

Obesity

-

-

−0.0129

−0.0077

0.0674

-

-

−0.005

−0.0035

0.0289

Interaction

-

-

-

-

−0.0042

-

-

-

-

−0.0018

Female

Smoking

-

0.0222

-

0.0161

0.033

-

−0.0002

-

0.0006

0.0088

Obesity

-

-

−0.0038

−0.0012

0.0115

-

-

0.0069

0.0068

0.0181

Interaction

-

-

-

-

−0.001

-

-

-

-

−0.0011

R-Square

 

0.9461

0.9528

0.9311

0.9494

0.9597

0.9884

0.9881

0.9889

0.9888

0.9895

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