death_rates: Death rates

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Description

A dataset containing Australain male and female death rates for 2008-2010, available from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. See http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs@.nsf/Lookup/3302.0.55.001Main+Features12008-2010 These death rate define a "period" life table, as though the whole population, of whatever age, was subject to the current mortality rates. The alternative is a "cohort" life table that follows a cohort from birth to age "x" with the rates of martality experienced by that cohort.

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two vectors of length 100

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