Mortality Laws and Statistics (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Mortality Laws and Statistics<br><br>The present work is designed to set forth in concise form the essential facts and theoretical relations with reference to the duration of human life. A description is first given of those mortality tables which have had the greatest influence on the development of the science of life contingencies or on its application in this country. A few chapters are then devoted to the mathematical relations between the various functions connected with human mortality, to the analysis of probabilities of death or survival, so as to lead to their simplest form of expression in terms of the mortality table, and to the general mathematical laws which have been proposed to express the facts of human mortality. The connection is then established between the mortality table and mortality statistics and some investigation made of the corrections which must be allowed for in interpreting such statistics.<br><br>The methods of constructing mortality tables from census and death returns and from insurance experience are then taken up. The methods adopted for the purpose of adjusting the rough data derived from experience are next described and their theoretical basis investigated. Some of these methods of construction and graduation are then illustrated by a new mortality table now first published. In the Appendix ten useful tables are given.<br><br>The scope of the treatise is confined to life contingencies excluding all monetary applications, so that the combination of the theory of compound interest with that of life contingencies is not touched upon.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.