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Experiments in Graduating the Data for the English Life Tables (No. 14)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2014

J. J. McCutcheon
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By courtesy of the Government Actuary, the preliminary data relating to the proposed English Life Tables (No. 14) were made available to the author. In this paper we describe briefly the graduation of the underlying crude mortality rates by cubic splines and give an outline of the salient features of the graduations finally adopted. Complete details of the English Life Tables are given in reference 1, which also includes historical comparisons.

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Transactions of the Faculty of Actuaries , Volume 40 , 1985 , pp. 135 - 147
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Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1985

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