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Some results on the Gompertz and Heligman and Pollard laws of mortality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2012

A. R. Thatcher
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Abstract

The ‘law of mortality’ proposed by Heligman and Pollard is compared with the law of Gompertz and with English Life Table No. 14. Some new mathematical results are derived, including specific equations for the curve of deaths. Some numerical illustrations are given.

Keywords

Life TablesMathematicsMortality
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Institute of Actuaries , Volume 117 , Issue 1 , June 1990 , pp. 135 - 149
Copyright
Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1990

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