Volume 21 - Article 29 | Pages 879–884
Survival as a Function of Life Expectancy
| Date received: | 21 Oct 2009 |
| Date published: | 11 Dec 2009 |
| Word count: | 976 |
| Keywords: | force of mortality, life expectancy, life table, stationary population, survival function |
| DOI: | 10.4054/DemRes.2009.21.29 |
| Weblink: | All publications in the ongoing Special Collection 8 "Formal Relationships" can be found at http://www.demographic-research.org/special/8/ |
Abstract
It is well known that life expectancy can be expressed as an integral of the survival curve. The reverse - that the survival function can be expressed as an integral of life expectancy - is also true.
Author's Affiliation
Maxim Finkelstein - University of the Free State, South Africa
James W. Vaupel - Syddansk Universitet, Denmark
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