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Improvements in Age-Specific Mortality at the Oldest Ages
Trifon I. Missov, Silvio C. Patricio, Francisco Villavicencio
Age-specific mortality improvements are non-uniform, neither across ages nor across time. We propose a two-step procedure to estimate the rates of mortality improvement (RMI) in ag…
Drewnowski's index to measure lifespan variation: Revisiting the Gini coefficient of the life table
José Manuel Aburto, Ugofilippo Basellini, Annette Baudisch +1
The Gini coefficient of the life table is a concentration index that provides information on lifespan variation. Originally proposed by economists to measure income and wealth ineq…
A flexible Bayesian framework to estimate age- and cause-specific child mortality over time from sample registration data
Austin E Schumacher, Tyler H McCormick, Jon Wakefield +5
In order to implement disease-specific interventions in young age groups, policy makers in low- and middle-income countries require timely and accurate estimates of age- and cause-…
The threshold age of Keyfitz' entropy
José Manuel Aburto, Jesús-Adrián Alvarez, Francisco Villavicencio +1
BACKGROUND Indicators of relative inequality of lifespans are important because they capture the dimensionless shape of aging. They are markers of inequality at the population leve…
Does the risk of death continue to rise among supercentenarians?
Francisco Villavicencio, José Manuel Aburto
A recent study in the 2017 Living to 100 Monograph published by the Society of Actuaries suggests, in contrast to previous research, that the risk of death after 110 increases with…