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Life Tables – A Plea for their Use
Author(s) -
Raeside Robert,
Windle David
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
teaching statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.425
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1467-9639
pISSN - 0141-982X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9639.1991.tb00182.x
Subject(s) - plea , table (database) , computer science , data science , mathematics education , operations research , psychology , mathematics , data mining , law , political science
Summary This article highlights the important contribution that life tables can make to teaching in the social sciences and in engineering subjects, especially when comparative work is carried out. The article ends by illustrating how to form the life table and generate appropriate graphs using a spreadsheet.