The Life Table pp 33-78 | Cite as
The construction of life tables
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Abstract
This chapter first recalls the probabilistic background of the estimation of mortality intensity by age and sex during a year of observation. It leads to the fundamental pair of relationships -hereafter numbered [24] and [32]- yielding the number of deaths inside each triangle of the Lexis diagram.
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Mathematical Expectation Lower Triangle Time Band Migratory Balance Death Number
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© Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2002