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Analytic expressions for life expectancy in Gamma-Gompertz Mortality Settings

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  • Trifon I. Missov

    (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany)

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    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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    Paper provided by Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany in its series MPIDR Working Papers with number WP-2010-020.

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    Length: 8 pages
    Date of creation: Feb 2010
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    Handle: RePEc:dem:wpaper:wp-2010-020

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