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A Basic Curve of Deaths

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2016

William Phillips
William Phillips*
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Middle Temple
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The two-fold purpose of this paper is:

(i) To hypothesize the existence of a Basic Curve of Deaths, a curve to which it is suggested all curves of deaths are, as it were, striving to attain—the ‘idea’ of a curve of deaths, almost in a Platonic sense, a curve applicable not only to humanity, but equally to all forms of life.

(ii) To seek a representation of that curve by a function containing as few parameters as possible, on the principle that while there are other functions which fit the observations more exactly, we here prefer a simple function which fits them well enough.

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Research Article
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Journal of the Institute of Actuaries , Volume 80 , Issue 3 , December 1954 , pp. 289 - 325
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Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1954

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