Survival as a Function of Life Expectancy

Maxim Finkelstein and James W. Vaupel
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Maxim Finkelstein: University of the Free State
James W. Vaupel: Syddansk Universitet

Demographic Research, 2009, vol. 21, issue 29, 879-884

Abstract: It is well known that life expectancy can be expressed as an integral of the survival curve. The reverse - that the survival function can be expressed as an integral of life expectancy - is also true.

Keywords: life expectancy; life table; stationary population; survival function; force of mortality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J1 Z0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.29

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