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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 August 2016
In the course of an investigation I have lately made, into the rate of mortality that has prevailed among the female lives insured in the Scottish Equitable Life Assurance Society, I have tried various methods of arranging the facts furnisht by the books of the office; and I think it may be useful to persons engaged in similar investigations, if I describe these methods, and state the conclusions at which I have arrived as to the best course of procedure.
page 218 note * The Mortality Experience of Life Assurance Companies collected by the Institute of Actuaries. London, C. & E. Layton, 1869.
page 219 note * Several of the questions here considered were dealt with in my paper On the premiums for the insurance of recently selected lives. (J.I.A. xx, 95: See particularly pages 98-101 and 111.)
