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A yearly grouped time series dataset, from 1901 to 2003, of infant mortality counts (deaths) in Australia; disaggregated by state (see below), and sex (male and female).

Usage

infantMortality

Format

List of time series of class ts.

Source

hts package CRAN

Details

States: New South Wales (NSW), Victoria (VIC), Queensland (QLD), South Australia (SA), Western Australia (WA), Northern Territory (NT), Australian Capital Territory (ACT), and Tasmania (TAS).

References

Hyndman, R.J., Ahmed, R.A., Athanasopoulos, G., Shang, H.L. (2011). Optimal combination forecasts for hierarchical time series. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 55(9), 2579-2589.