Estimation of Life Expectancy in the Middle Ages Export

@article{citeulike:2836587, abstract = {In the Middle Ages data on landholders were recorded. We use a selection of these data for estimating the life expectancy of adult males from the higher ranks of English society. The data consist of the age at which the landholder inherited land, a sequence of ages at which he was known to be alive and possibly the age at death. We explain that the date of death is left truncated and right censored at an unknown censoring time. We propose a model to fit (a selection of) the data, we give estimators of the unknown parameters in the model and we present estimates of adult life expectancy.}, author = {Jonker, M. A.}, citeulike-article-id = {2836587}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3559830}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/3559830}, doi = {10.2307/3559830}, journal = {Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society)}, keywords = {ages, death, middle}, number = {1}, pages = {105--117}, posted-at = {2008-05-27 07:06:08}, priority = {2}, publisher = {Blackwell Publishing for the Royal Statistical Society}, title = {Estimation of Life Expectancy in the Middle Ages}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3559830}, volume = {166}, year = {2003} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2836587 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2836587 N2 - In the Middle Ages data on landholders were recorded. We use a selection of these data for estimating the life expectancy of adult males from the higher ranks of English society. The data consist of the age at which the landholder inherited land, a sequence of ages at which he was known to be alive and possibly the age at death. We explain that the date of death is left truncated and right censored at an unknown censoring time. We propose a model to fit (a selection of) the data, we give estimators of the unknown parameters in the model and we present estimates of adult life expectancy. IS - 1 JF - Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society) EP - 117 TI - Estimation of Life Expectancy in the Middle Ages PB - Blackwell Publishing for the Royal Statistical Society VL - 166 SP - 105 KW - ages KW - death KW - middle AU - Jonker, MA PY - 2003/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3559830 ER -