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On the relationship between life expectancy, modal age at death, and the threshold age of the life table entropy

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https://doi.org/10.4054/DemRes.2024.51.24

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Indicators of longevity like the life expectancy at birth or the modal age at death are always positively affected by improvements in mortality. Instead, for lifespan variation it has been shown that there exists a threshold age above and below which averting deaths respectively increases or decreases such variation. ( ... )

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Longevitat, Esperança de vida, Entropia

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Longevity, Life expectancy, Entropy

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MICHELETTI, Chiara and VILLAVICENCIO GOULA, Francisco. On the relationship between life expectancy, modal age at death, and the threshold age of the life table entropy. Demographic Research. 2024. Vol. 51, num. 763-788. ISSN 1435-9871. [consulted: 14 of August of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/222830

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