R help - Apr 2012 - Package "demography" - calculating quintiles of survival probabilities

Hi,


I am using the package "demography" from Rob Hyndman for the
Lee-Carter-Model. It is an amazing powerful tool but I am struggling with
one issue: 


*I want to compute different quintiles for the cumulative survival
probability derived from the Lee-Carter-Forecast (e.g. the 50%-quintile,
75%-quintile and 99%-quintile) for the next 10 years. * 


I am sure the package possess this functionality but I didn't find any way
to calculate quintile values.


Hope you can help me!


Thanks

Jonas

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On Apr 20, 2012, at 7:16 AM, jolo999 wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> I am using the package "demography" from Rob Hyndman for the
> Lee-Carter-Model. It is an amazing powerful tool but I am struggling  
> with
> one issue:
>
>
> *I want to compute different quintiles for the cumulative survival
> probability derived from the Lee-Carter-Forecast (e.g. the 50%- 
> quintile,
> 75%-quintile and 99%-quintile) for the next 10 years. *
>
The fact that you appear not to know the difference between the words  
'quantile' and 'quintile' makes me wonder whether what you are
really
asking for are confidence intervals at chosen significance levels?
>
> I am sure the package possess this functionality but I didn't find  
> any way
> to calculate quintile values.
>
>
> Hope you can help me!
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Jonas
>
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