The Life Table : Modelling Survival and Death / edited by Guillaume Wunsch, Michel Mouchart, Josianne Duchêne.
The Life Table covers various important issues in life table construction and use. G. Wunsch presents a non-technical overview of the life table in the first chapter. G. Calot and A. Franco then give a detailed account of the estimation of the probability of dying between two consecutive ages, takin...
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2002.
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| Series: | European studies of population ;
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. The life table: A demographic overview
- 2. The construction of life tables
- 3. Methods of decomposition of differences between life expectancies at birth by causes of death
- 4. Of entropies and inequalities: Summary measures of the age distribution of mortality
- 5. Age, period and cohort components in analysing past and projecting future mortality trends
- 6. Parameterisation as a tool in analysing age, period and cohort effects on mortality: A case study of the Netherlands
- 7. The registration of causes of death: Problems of comparability
- 8. Gains in life expectancy by eliminating major causes of death: Revised estimates taking into account competing causes of death
- 9. The measurement of mortality by cause and morbidity
- 10. Competing risks models: Problems of modelling and of identification
- 11. Use of demographic tools in the assessment of the health level of populations
- 12. The life table: A sociological overview
- List of authors.