Deciphering death: a commentary on Gompertz (1825) ‘On the nature of the function expressive of the law of human mortality, and on a new mode of determining the value of life contingencies’
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- 19 April 2015
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- Published by The Royal Society in Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal Society B-Biological Sciences
- Vol. 370 (1666) , 20140379
- https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2014.0379
Abstract
In 1825, the actuary Benjamin Gompertz read a paper, ‘On the nature of the function expressive of the law of human mortality, and on a new mode of determining the value of life contingencies’, to t...Keywords
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