Mortality and Other Investigations

Originally published in 1955, this book forms the first of two volumes on actuarial practice in relation to mortality and other investigations.

List of contents

Preface; 1. Introduction; 2. One-year group mortality rates; 3. One-year mortality rates analysed by age and by duration; 4. Combination of two or more years of experience; 5. Adjustments for new entrants and leavers; 6. Sickness and other rates; 7. The principles of graduation and the graphic method; 8. Pivotal values, osculatory interpolation and abridged life tables; 9. The English life tables; Index.

Summary

Originally published in 1955, this book forms the first of two volumes on actuarial practice in relation to mortality and other investigations. Volume one provides 'elementary accounts of the derivation of mortality and other rates according to age, of the smoothing of such rates and of the construction of Mortality and Sickness Tables'.

Product details

• Authors: H. W. Haycocks, H. W. Perks Haycocks, Haycocks H. W., W. Perks, William T. Perks
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.04.2016
• EAN: 9781316603635
• ISBN: 978-1-316-60363-5
• No. of pages: 176
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; Epidemiology & medical statistics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Insurance / General, MEDICAL / Biostatistics, MEDICAL / Epidemiology, c 1950 to c 1959, Insurance & actuarial studies, C 1945 To C 1960, Insurance and actuarial studies, Epidemiology and Medical statistics