The concept of the Equivalent Length of Life for quantifying differences in age-at-death distributions across countries
Abstract Life expectancy, that is the mean age at death in a life table, is the most common measure used to describe and compare mortality distributions. Alternatives to life expectancy that have been proposed so far have also referred to only a single parameter of the mortality distribution. We pro...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2016-10-01
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| Series: | Genus |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41118-016-0011-1 |