Essays about: "Spanish flu"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words Spanish flu.

  1. 1. The efficiency of Hyndman-Ullah methods in case of populations with abnormal short-term increases of mortality rates due to wars and pandemics.

    University essay from Mälardalens universitet/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation

    Author : Teo Raspudić; [2022]
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    Abstract : This report is written with the goal of analyzing the efficiency of the Hyndman-Ullah (HU) and weighted Hyndman-Ullah (wHU) methods when working with the populations that suffered higher mortalities due to the wars and pandemics. Accordingly, the HU and wHU methods are applied to the training sets containing outlying years. READ MORE

  3. 2. ‘’Now, God himself is preaching’’: Perspectives on the Spanish flu from magazines affiliated with the Church of Sweden

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Teologiska institutionen

    Author : Love Karlsson; [2021]
    Keywords : Spanish flu; Spanska sjukan; Church of Sweden; Församlingsbladet; Svensk Kyrkotidning; Pandemic; Epidemic;

    Abstract : This study explores how the Church of Sweden was impacted by the Spanish flu in 1918-1920 and how people affiliated with the church interpreted the pandemic theologically. The material analyzed is trade-magazines for people affiliated with the Church from the relevant years. READ MORE

  4. 3. The Economic impact of Pandemic, case study of “Spanish Flu” in 1918-1920

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk historia och internationella relationer

    Author : Xinyue SU; [2021]
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  5. 4. Comparison of the 1st and 2nd order Lee–Carter methods with the robust Hyndman–Ullah method for fitting and forecasting mortality rates

    University essay from Mälardalens högskola/Akademin för utbildning, kultur och kommunikation

    Author : Emil Willersjö Nyfelt; [2020]
    Keywords : Mortality rate; Death rate; Data fitting; Lee-Carter; 2nd order Lee–Carter; Hyndman–Ullah; Modeling; ARIMA; Random walk; Singular Value Decomposition; Penalized Regression Splines; Weighted Functional Principal Component Analysis; Forecasting; Spanish flu; COVID-19;

    Abstract : The 1st and 2nd order Lee–Carter methods were compared with the Hyndman–Ullah method in regards to goodness of fit and forecasting ability of mortality rates. Swedish population data was used from the Human Mortality Database. READ MORE

  6. 5. Did the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Affect International Trade?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Madeleine Lindblad; Emma Axelsson; [2020]
    Keywords : Spanish Influenza; Trade; Fixed effects; Gravity Model; Life expectancy; Mortality; Pandemics; Poisson; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The aim of this study is to contribute to the existing literature by investigating what to our knowledge is a previously unexplored area, namely if the 1918 Influenza Pandemic - the Spanish flu - had an effect on global trade. The Spanish flu is estimated to have killed 17-100 million people between 1918-1920 (CDC NCIRD, 2018; Roser, 2020). READ MORE