The Life Table: Modelling Survival and Death (European Studies of Population) [Hardcover]

Guillaume Wunsch (Editor), Michel Mouchart (Editor), Josianne Duchêne (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1402006381 | ISBN-13: 978-1402006388 | Publication Date: July 15, 2002 | Edition: 1st

This work covers various important issues in life table construction and use. It. includes a non-technical overview, compares various methods of decomposing the difference in life expectancies, discusses the finding of suitable indicators and models, and deals with age, period, and cohort effects in mortality.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 324 pages
• Publisher: Springer; 1st edition (July 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1402006381
• ISBN-13: 978-1402006388
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,620,880 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Not a light read, February 27, 2004

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This review is from: The Life Table: Modelling Survival and Death (European Studies of Population) (Hardcover)

Certainly not light reading! This book gives a lot of the mathematical background for actuarial tables. The chapters discuss various conditional probabilities in the developed world for life expectancy, given this precondition or that precondition.

In some ways, the book is greatly unattainable. That is, if you live in subSaharan Africa or northern India or central China, where disease and malnutrition are still common. Plus the spectre of Aids/HIV, which has already had measurable lowering of the average life expectancy in several African countries. Those regions can only hope for the relevance of the book.

Reasonably advanced knowledge of statistics is needed to get the most out of the book.