Journal of the American Statistical Association · 1972 · 22 citations · 0 references
Social SciencesDemographyDemographic MethodsSurvival AnalysisAge EstimationLife ExpectancyLife Table AnalysisLife Table MethodsLife TablesAge At Last BirthDemographic Life Tables
Abstract The purpose of this note is to reintroduce a simple method of constructing current life tables proposed in [2], using the concept of the fraction of the last age interval of life, and to use it to construct life tables of the United States population.