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The Graphic method of constructing a Life Table illustrated by the Brighton Life Table, 1891—1900

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

Arthur Newsholme  and
T. H. C. Stevenson
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(1) The graphic method is more easy of application and requires less mathematical knowledge than the extended analytical method.

(2) In our experience it produces smooth curves of px and Ex.

(3) The analytical in the selection of the best process of interpolation appeals to the graphic method.

(4) While either the analytical or graphic process may in unskilful or careless hands give erroneous results, owing to errors in working out, the analytical process, unlike the graphic, presents a wide choice of methods, which although accurately worked out, give incomparable results.

(5) The facts given in the table on page 321 and in Fig. 1 A and B and table on page 317 show that almost identical results are obtained by the graphic method and by the improved extended analytical method. We regard this as important testimony to the accuracy of each of these methods, and at the same time as indicating the inaccuracy of the analytical methods giving different results.

(6) As the results obtained by the modified short analytical method and by the combined analytical and graphic method approximate so closely to those obtained by the detailed graphic method, either of them may safely be adopted by those who cannot spare time for working out a detailed Life Table by the graphic method.

(7) Every published Life Table should give exact details of the method of its construction, in order that the comparability of data and results may be tested. Much confusion has arisen, and important errors in comparison between different Life Tables have been produced, by the use of different methods of construction and the non-publication of details of methods.

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Research Article
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Journal of Hygiene , Volume 3 , Issue 3 , July 1903 , pp. 297 - 324
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1903

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