A new look at Halley's life table

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 174, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 823-832

  Bellhouse, David R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

17th century; Data analysis; Demographic statistics; Life tables; Smoothing

Indexed keywords

EID: 79960005547     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2010.00684.x     Document Type: Article

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