On the Nature of the Function Expressive of the Law of Human Mortality, and on a New Mode of Determining the Value of Life Contingencies

Gompertz, B. (1825). On the Nature of the Function Expressive of the Law of Human Mortality, and on a New Mode of Determining the Value of Life Contingencies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 513-583.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1825

Pages

513-583

DOI

10.1098/rstl.1825.0026

DOI registrant

The Royal Society

Link

https://doi.org/10.1098/rstl.1825.0026

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Domain-specific

• Gompertz–Makeham Law of Mortality
  • Benjamin Gompertz introduced the exponential-age law in 1825; William Makeham added a constant component in nineteenth-century actuarial work.

Mechanisms

• Non-Aging Eligibility Review
  • Human mortality is the clean anti-example — the Gompertz pattern of roughly exponentially rising hazard with age

    This sourceModels adult human mortality hazard as rising approximately exponentially with age.

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