On the estimation of disability-free life expectancy: Sullivan's method and its extension

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 102, Issue 480, 2007, Pages 1199-1211

  Imai, Kosuke ^a   Soneji, Samir ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregate data; Demography; Healthy life expectancy; Life tables; Morbidity; Mortality; Stationarity

Indexed keywords

EID: 37049027739     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214507000000040     Document Type: Article

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