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Time-changes in the Mortality Rate: An Experimental Formula

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2016

L. G. K. Starke
L. G. K. Starke
Affiliation:
Government Actuary's Department
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Although this paper deals with the application of mathematical formulae to mortality data, it is not concerned with ‘graduation’ if that word is held to imply the fitting of a particular curve to a particular experience with the object of satisfying statistical tests. Nor is the paper concerned with the development of any philosophical theory of mortality. The experiments which it describes were undertaken in the hope of finding a standard type of curve which would give a good over-all representation of adult mortality in general. If such a curve could be found, an examination of the variations in its parameters might contribute something to an understanding, not of the nature of mortality itself, but of the differences—more particularly the secular differences—between one mortality experience and another.

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Research Article
Information
Journal of the Institute of Actuaries , Volume 78 , Issue 2 , September 1952 , pp. 171 - 204
Copyright
Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1952

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