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Alfred Watson Memorial Lecture: Mortality and the Nature of Age Processes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2016

Alex Comfort
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Journal of the Institute of Actuaries , Volume 84 , Issue 3 , December 1958 , pp. 263 - 280
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Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1958

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