Heligman Pollard mortality model parameter estimation using Bayesian Melding with Incremental Mixture Importance Sampling This package provides all the functions necessary to estimate the 8 parameters of the Heligman Pollard mortality model using a Bayesian Melding procedure with IMIS as well as to convert those parameters into age-specifc probabilities of death and a corresponding life table Software Depends: MASS, mvtnorm, corpcor, numDeriv, stats, boot Dave Sharrow <dsharrow@u.washington.edu> David J Sharrow Unlimited 2011-01-31 application/tgz http://CRAN.R-project.org/package=HPbayes