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Comments on ‘Some results on the Gompertz and Heligman and Pollard laws of mortality’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2012

A. E. Renshaw
A. E. Renshaw
Affiliation:
The City University, London
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Abstract

The consequences of graduating truncated English Life Table data by either the Gompertz or truncated Heligman and Pollard ‘laws of mortality’, recently advocated by Thatcher (1990), are examined in greater detail.

Keywords

English Life TablesGraduation
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Institute of Actuaries , Volume 119 , Issue 1 , 1992 , pp. 107 - 113
Copyright
Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1992

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