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Provides a graphical analysis of period- and cohort-effects in mortality
Offers readers a visual understanding of how mortality changes dynamically
Accompanied by instructions on how to use the R Software to produce surface maps
Part of the book series: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis (PSDE, volume 44)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book is open access under a CC BY license.
Keywords
- Graphical analysis
- Mortality analysis
- Age-, period-, cohort-effects
- Rates of mortality improvement
- Life expectancy
- Open access
Authors and Affiliations
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Faculty of Economic and Social Sciences, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
Roland Rau
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Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany
Christina Bohk-Ewald
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Collegium of Economic Analysis, Warsaw School of Economics, Warsaw, Poland
Magdalena M. Muszyńska
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Department of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Odense C, Denmark
James W. Vaupel
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Visualizing Mortality Dynamics in the Lexis Diagram
Authors: Roland Rau, Christina Bohk-Ewald, Magdalena M. Muszyńska, James W. Vaupel
Series Title: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64820-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
License: CC BY
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-64818-7Published: 23 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87880-5Published: 09 September 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-64820-0Published: 14 November 2017
Series ISSN: 1877-2560
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1990
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 169
Number of Illustrations: 114 b/w illustrations
Topics: Population and Demography, Public Health, Statistics in Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, Education, Behavorial Sciences, Public Policy