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A new look at entropy and the life table

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  1. Snorre Jallbjørn & Søren Fiig Jarner, 2022. "Sex Differential Dynamics in Coherent Mortality Models," Forecasting, MDPI, vol. 4(4), pages 1-26, September.
  2. Mara Airoldi & Alec Morton, 2009. "Adjusting life for quality or disability: stylistic difference or substantial dispute?," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 18(11), pages 1237-1247, November.
  3. Henrik Brønnum-Hansen & Juan Carlos Albizu-Campos Espiñeira & Camila Perera & Ingelise Andersen, 2023. "Trends in mortality patterns in two countries with different welfare models: comparisons between Cuba and Denmark 1955–2020," Journal of Population Research, Springer, vol. 40(2), pages 1-28, June.
  4. Aburto, José Manuel & Basellini, Ugofilippo & Baudisch, Annette & Villavicencio, Francisco, 2022. "Drewnowski’s index to measure lifespan variation: Revisiting the Gini coefficient of the life table," Theoretical Population Biology, Elsevier, vol. 148(C), pages 1-10.
  5. Edwards Ryan D, 2009. "The Cost of Cyclical Mortality," The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, De Gruyter, vol. 9(1), pages 1-19, March.
  6. Jos'e Manuel Aburto & Ugofilippo Basellini & Annette Baudisch & Francisco Villavicencio, 2021. "Drewnowski's index to measure lifespan variation: Revisiting the Gini coefficient of the life table," Papers 2111.11256, arXiv.org.
  7. Alyson Raalte & Hal Caswell, 2013. "Perturbation Analysis of Indices of Lifespan Variability," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 50(5), pages 1615-1640, October.
  8. Marcia de Castro, 2001. "Changes in mortality and life expectancy: Some methodological issues," Mathematical Population Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 9(3-4), pages 181-208.
  9. Rabitti, Giovanni & Borgonovo, Emanuele, 2020. "Is mortality or interest rate the most important risk in annuity models? A comparison of sensitivity analysis methods," Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 95(C), pages 48-58.
  10. James W. Vaupel & Vladimir Canudas Romo, 2002. "Decomposing change in life expectancy: a bouquet of formulas in honour of Nathan Keyfitz´s 90th birthday," MPIDR Working Papers WP-2002-042, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.
  11. Vladimir Canudas-Romo & Robert Schoen, 2005. "Age-specific contributions to changes in the period and cohort life expectancy," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 13(3), pages 63-82.
  12. Basellini, Ugofilippo & Camarda, Carlo Giovanni & Booth, Heather, 2022. "Thirty years on: A review of the Lee-Carter method for forecasting mortality," SocArXiv 8u34d, Center for Open Science.
  13. Lloyd Demetrius, 1989. "The demographic evolution of human populations: The role of selection and environmental factors," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 26(3), pages 353-372, August.
  14. Basellini, Ugofilippo & Camarda, Carlo Giovanni & Booth, Heather, 2023. "Thirty years on: A review of the Lee–Carter method for forecasting mortality," International Journal of Forecasting, Elsevier, vol. 39(3), pages 1033-1049.
  15. Zhen Zhang & James W. Vaupel, 2009. "The age separating early deaths from late deaths," MPIDR Working Papers WP-2009-004, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.
  16. Joshua R. Goldstein & Thomas Cassidy, 2010. "How slowing senescence changes life expectancy," MPIDR Working Papers WP-2010-006, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.
  17. S. Mitra, 1987. "On “A New Look At Entropy And The Life Table”," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 24(3), pages 439-439, August.
  18. Oscar E Fernandez & Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez, 2022. "Life span inequality as a function of the moments of the deaths distribution: Connections and insights," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 17(1), pages 1-17, January.
  19. Jose Manuel Aburto & Jesús-Adrián Alvarez & Francisco Villavicencio & James W. Vaupel, 2019. "The threshold age of the lifetable entropy," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 41(4), pages 83-102.
  20. Fernandez, Oscar E. & Beltrán-Sánchez, Hiram, 2015. "The entropy of the life table: A reappraisal," Theoretical Population Biology, Elsevier, vol. 104(C), pages 26-45.
  21. Alvarez, Jesús-Adrián & Kallestrup-Lamb, Malene & Kjærgaard, Søren, 2021. "Linking retirement age to life expectancy does not lessen the demographic implications of unequal lifespans," Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 99(C), pages 363-375.
  22. Tomasz Wrycza, 2014. "Entropy of the Gompertz-Makeham mortality model," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 30(49), pages 1397-1404.
  23. Tomasz Wrycza, 2014. "Variance in age at death equals average squared remaining life expectancy at death," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 30(50), pages 1405-1412.
  24. Timothy Riffe & Iñaki Permanyer & Rustam Tursun-Zade & Magdalena Muszynska-Spielauer, 2024. "Calculating the joint distribution of years lived in good and poor health," MPIDR Working Papers WP-2024-013, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.
  25. Ralph Hakkert, 1987. "Life table transformations and inequality measures: Some noteworthy formal relationships," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 24(4), pages 615-622, November.
  26. Kevin P. Brand, 2005. "Approximations and Heuristics for the “Cause‐Modified” Life Table," Risk Analysis, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 25(3), pages 695-709, June.
  27. Duncan Gillespie & Meredith Trotter & Shripad Tuljapurkar, 2014. "Divergence in Age Patterns of Mortality Change Drives International Divergence in Lifespan Inequality," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 51(3), pages 1003-1017, June.
  28. Alyson A. van Raalte & Pekka Martikainen & Mikko Myrskylä, 2012. "Lifespan variation by occupational class: compression or stagnation over time?," MPIDR Working Papers WP-2012-010, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany.
  29. Amancio Betzuen Zalbidegoitia & Amaia Jone Betzuen Álvarez, 2021. "Is Longevity Acceleration Sustainable? An Entropy-Based Trial of the Population of Spain vs. Japan," Mathematics, MDPI, vol. 9(15), pages 1-18, July.
  30. Beltrán-Sánchez, Hiram & Soneji, Samir, 2011. "A unifying framework for assessing changes in life expectancy associated with changes in mortality: The case of violent deaths," Theoretical Population Biology, Elsevier, vol. 80(1), pages 38-48.
  31. Alyson van Raalte & Pekka Martikainen & Mikko Myrskylä, 2014. "Lifespan Variation by Occupational Class: Compression or Stagnation Over Time?," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 51(1), pages 73-95, February.
  32. Zhen Zhang & James W. Vaupel, 2009. "The age separating early deaths from late deaths," Demographic Research, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, vol. 20(29), pages 721-730.
  33. Jesús-Adrián Álvarez & Malene Kallestrup-Lamb & Søren Kjærgaard, 2020. "Linking retirement age to life expectancy does not lessen the demographic implications of unequal lifespans," CREATES Research Papers 2020-17, Department of Economics and Business Economics, Aarhus University.
  34. Haberman, Steven & Khalaf-Allah, Marwa & Verrall, Richard, 2011. "Entropy, longevity and the cost of annuities," Insurance: Mathematics and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 48(2), pages 197-204, March.
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