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Methods of expanding an abridged life tables: comparison between two methods (Kaedah Mengembangkan Jadual Hayat Ringkas:Perbandingan Antara Dua Kaedah)

A question of interest in the demografic and actuarial fields is the estimation of the complete sets of qx-values when the data are given in age groups. This study presents two techniques of expanding an abridged life table to a complete ones. The two expansion techniques used in the study are King’...

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Main Authors: Rose Irnawaty Ibrahim,, Zailan Siri,
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Language:English
Published: Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2011
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spelling my-ukm.journal.31462016-12-14T06:33:44Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3146/ Methods of expanding an abridged life tables: comparison between two methods (Kaedah Mengembangkan Jadual Hayat Ringkas:Perbandingan Antara Dua Kaedah) Rose Irnawaty Ibrahim, Zailan Siri, A question of interest in the demografic and actuarial fields is the estimation of the complete sets of qx-values when the data are given in age groups. This study presents two techniques of expanding an abridged life table to a complete ones. The two expansion techniques used in the study are King’s Osculatory Interpolation and Heligman-Pollard model. This work evaluated and compared the performance of King’s Osculatory Interpolation and Heligman-Pollard model. For that purpose, empirical data sets on abridged life tables for Malaysian populations for the period of 1991, 1995 and 1999 for both gender were collected. Then each of the expanding techniques considered was applied to these abridged data sets. The complete sets of qx-values obtained from these two techniques were then used to produce the estimated abridged ones. These results were then compared with the actual values published in the abridged life tables. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2011-12 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/3146/1/15_Rose_Irnawaty.pdf Rose Irnawaty Ibrahim, and Zailan Siri, (2011) Methods of expanding an abridged life tables: comparison between two methods (Kaedah Mengembangkan Jadual Hayat Ringkas:Perbandingan Antara Dua Kaedah). Sains Malaysiana, 40 (12). pp. 1449-1453. ISSN 0126-6039 http://www.ukm.my/jsm/
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description A question of interest in the demografic and actuarial fields is the estimation of the complete sets of qx-values when the data are given in age groups. This study presents two techniques of expanding an abridged life table to a complete ones. The two expansion techniques used in the study are King’s Osculatory Interpolation and Heligman-Pollard model. This work evaluated and compared the performance of King’s Osculatory Interpolation and Heligman-Pollard model. For that purpose, empirical data sets on abridged life tables for Malaysian populations for the period of 1991, 1995 and 1999 for both gender were collected. Then each of the expanding techniques considered was applied to these abridged data sets. The complete sets of qx-values obtained from these two techniques were then used to produce the estimated abridged ones. These results were then compared with the actual values published in the abridged life tables.
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author Rose Irnawaty Ibrahim,
Zailan Siri,
spellingShingle Rose Irnawaty Ibrahim,
Zailan Siri,
Methods of expanding an abridged life tables: comparison between two methods (Kaedah Mengembangkan Jadual Hayat Ringkas:Perbandingan Antara Dua Kaedah)
author_facet Rose Irnawaty Ibrahim,
Zailan Siri,
author_sort Rose Irnawaty Ibrahim,
title Methods of expanding an abridged life tables: comparison between two methods (Kaedah Mengembangkan Jadual Hayat Ringkas:Perbandingan Antara Dua Kaedah)
title_short Methods of expanding an abridged life tables: comparison between two methods (Kaedah Mengembangkan Jadual Hayat Ringkas:Perbandingan Antara Dua Kaedah)
title_full Methods of expanding an abridged life tables: comparison between two methods (Kaedah Mengembangkan Jadual Hayat Ringkas:Perbandingan Antara Dua Kaedah)
title_fullStr Methods of expanding an abridged life tables: comparison between two methods (Kaedah Mengembangkan Jadual Hayat Ringkas:Perbandingan Antara Dua Kaedah)
title_full_unstemmed Methods of expanding an abridged life tables: comparison between two methods (Kaedah Mengembangkan Jadual Hayat Ringkas:Perbandingan Antara Dua Kaedah)
title_sort methods of expanding an abridged life tables: comparison between two methods (kaedah mengembangkan jadual hayat ringkas:perbandingan antara dua kaedah)
publisher Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate 2011
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