life.expectancy.stationary: Life Expectancy At Birth in a Stationary Population

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Vignettes Author(s) Examples

View source: R/pop_reconstruction_functions.R

Description

Calculates life expectancy at birth from age-specific survival proportions in a stationary population. See the vignette burkina-faso-females for an illustration of its use.

Usage

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Arguments

z

Vector of age specific survival proportions for age groups of width five years.

Details

This function calculates the life expectancy at birth in a stationary population subject to the survival proportions supplied.

Value

Life expectancy at birth.

Vignettes

burkina-faso-females

Author(s)

Mark C. Wheldon

Examples

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## Can take a few minutes

## Not run: data(burkina_faso_females)
life.expectancy.stationary(burkina.faso.females$survival.proportions[,1])

## End(Not run)

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