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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’
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 the Royal Society in which he showed that over much of the adult human lifespan, age-specific mortality...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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The Royal Society
2015
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4360127/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25750242 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2014.0379 |