LDR: Life-table Death Rate

Description Usage Details Source

Description

Life-table Death Rate

Usage

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LDR(ex)

Details

The Life-table death rate is the inverse of the total life-expectancy. It can also be understood as the weighted harmonic mean of the force of mortality, i.e. mu-bar.

Source

Wrycza, Tomasz, and Annette Baudisch. 2014. "The Pace of Aging: Intrinsic Time Scales in Demography." Demographic Research 30 (1): 1571-90. doi:10.4054/DemRes.2014.30.57.


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