Federal Institute for Population Research

Miscellaneous PublicationsSplitting of aggregated medical and demographic data

Michalski, Anatoli I.; Gorlishchev, Vasily P.; Jdanov, Dmitri, A.; Grigoriev, Pavel (2017)

Moscow, Russia, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers: 420–424

It is common in medical statistics and in demography to use data aggregated in 5-year or 10-year age groups. More detailed information by 1-year age groups are needed for precise estimations and projections. We describe two approaches for grouped data splitting. One uses a constrained quadratic optimization technique and the other builds an artificial neural net.

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