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A comparison between the mortality of non-smoking and smoking assured lives in the United Kingdom

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 April 2012

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

Abstract

A method of graduation by mathematical formula is extended to cover the simultaneousgraduation of more than one comparable experience and is applied to the recent. U.K. mortality experience of smoking and non-smoking assured lives.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1994

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