Analytic expressions for life expectancy in Gamma-Gompertz Mortality Settings

Trifon I. Missov
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Trifon I. Missov: Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany

No WP-2010-020, MPIDR Working Papers from Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany

Abstract: In a population with Gamma-distributed individual frailty and Gompertz-distributed mortality there is a closed-form analytic expression for calculating the life-expectancy integral. Several simplifications of the resulting formula serve as plausible approximations.

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Pages: 8 pages
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.4054/MPIDR-WP-2010-020

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