How Long Do We Live? Demographic Models and Reflections on Tempo Effects /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Barbi, Elisabetta (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Vaupel, James W. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Bongaarts, John (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2008.
• Σειρά: Demographic Research Monographs,
• Θέματα: Social sciences.; Statistics.; Population.; Aging.; Demography.; Social Sciences.; Population Economics.; Statistics for Social Science, Behavorial Science, Education, Public Policy, and Law.

The most widely used measure of longevity is the period life expectancy at birth which is calculated from age specific death rates by life table methods. In 2002, John Bongaarts and Griffith Feeney introduced the revolutionary idea that this conventional estimate of period life expectancy is distort...