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On the Analytical Construction of Population and Death Curves to form the basis of a Life-table

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 May 2009

T. E. Hayward
T. E. Hayward
Affiliation:
Medical Officer of Health of Haydock, Lancashire.
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The “graphic” method of constructing a Life-Table which is ably and lucidly expounded in the paper by Drs Newsholme and Stevenson (published in the Journal of Hygiene, vol. III. No. 3, pp. 297—324), is one way of dividing up foundation figures of population and deaths, given in groups of ages, into numbers belonging to each separate year of age, so that, either directly by the fraction , or indirectly by first obtaining , and then finding the value of , the series of px values is obtained forming the connecting link between the data and the results of the Life-Table.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Hygiene , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , April 1906 , pp. 215 - 225
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1906

References

1 For a previous discussion of the same point see Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Vol. LXII. Part IV. pp. 696—699, where the same conclusion is arrived at as to the preferability of the combined method of interpolation.