How will improved forecasts of individual lifetimes affect underwriting?

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 352, Issue 1357, 1997, Pages 1067-1075

  Macdonald, Angus S ^a  

^a HERIOT WATT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0031590144     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1997.0087     Document Type: Review

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