German all-cause mortality data

A dataset containing the number of weekly deaths in Germany reported to the German Federal Statistical Office https://www.destatis.de/DE/Themen/Gesellschaft-Umwelt/Bevoelkerung/Sterbefaelle-Lebenserwartung/sterbefallzahlen.html. The variables are as follows:

Usage

mort_df_germany

Format

A tibble with 418 rows and 7 variables:

date

Week of death

observed

Number of deaths

id

Name of time series

timepoint

A numeric column counting sequential weeks from 0 to total number of weeks, representing time progression for time-trend modeling

sin52

Computed sinus component used for harmonic modeling

cos52

Computed cosine component used for harmonic modeling

bckg_week

A logical (`TRUE`/`FALSE`) variable marking background mortality weeks, used for estimating model parameters.