The Life Table: Modelling Survival and Death (European Studies of Population)
by Guillaume Wunsch, Michel Mouchart, Josianne Duchêne
Category: Social Science

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.