Hostname: page-component-76fb5796d-r6qrq Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-28T06:49:28.930Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Graunt's life table

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 August 2016

D. V. Glass
D. V. Glass
Affiliation:
University of London
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Other
Information
Journal of the Institute of Actuaries , Volume 76 , Issue 1 , June 1950 , pp. 60 - 64
Copyright
Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1950

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

page 60 note * Graunt, John, Natural and Political Observations, 1st ed., 1662, p. 69. (I cite throughout this paper the edition by Willcox, W. F., Baltimore, 1939.)Google Scholar

page 60 note † Greenwood, M., Graunt and Petty, J.R.S.S. Vol. xci, Part I, p. 82 (1928).Google Scholar

page 60 note † W. F. Willcox, ed. of Graunt, pp. xi—xii, suggests that Petty did the experimenting.

page 60 note § In any case, as is shown later, the ⅔ fraction does not reproduce Petty's results.

page 60 note ǁ Ptoukha, M., John Graunt, fondateur de la démographie, Congrès International de la Population, Paris, 1937, Vol. 2, pp. 71–72.Google Scholar

page 61 note * I am prepared to argue on behalf of King as an outstanding demographer, but this is obviously not the place to do so.

page 61 note † In Treasury bundle T. 64/302.

page 63 note * Hull, C. H., The Economic Writings of Sir William Petty, Cambridge, 1899, Vol. 1, pp. 144–145.Google Scholar