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The Changing Shape of English Life Tables

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 October 2014

D. O. Forfar  and
D. M. Smith
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1. In a paper to the Institute of Actuaries (JIA 107, p. 49) Heligman and Pollard fitted certain mathematical curves to Australian national mortality. They showed that a good fit could be obtained throughout the whole of life with the following curve:

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Transactions of the Faculty of Actuaries , Volume 40 , 1985 , pp. 98 - 134
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Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1985

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Heligman, L. and Pollard, J. H.The age pattern of mortality. J.I.A., 107, p. 49.Google Scholar
Benjamin, B. and Pollard, J. H.The analysis of mortality and other actuarial statistics. Heinemann, London.Google Scholar